PRIST UNIVERSITY THANJAVUR CAMPUS QUESTION BANK 2010 ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE M.

TECH COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING UNIT-I PART-A 1. What do you mean by interrupt? 2. What is register mode? 3. Define system software. 4. Define pipelining. 5. Differentiate big-Endian and Little Endian? 6. What is assembly language notations?Give example. 7. What is straight line sequencing? 8. What are addressing modes? 9. Define stack and queue. 10. What is indirect mode? PART-B 11. Explain the single bus structure. 12. Describe in detail about assembler directives 13 . Explain in detail about instruction and instruction sequencing 14. Explain the basic input/output operations performed by the processor. 15. How should an instruction format be designed? Discuss the different types of instruction formats,bringing out their relative advantages and disadvantages. 16. Explain in detail about addressing modes 17. Draw and explain the basic functional units of a computer 18 Explain in detail about stacks and queues UNIT-II PART-A 1. What do you mean by floating point numbers. 2. Define lookahead carry generator. 3. Define Booth algorithm 4. List out the rules of floating point addition and subtraction. 5. Define bit-pair recoding 6. State the principle of operation of carry- lookahead adder. 7. List out features of guard bits 8. What is carry-save addition? 9. List out the rules of floating point of multiplication and division. 10. What is carry-look ahead adder?

PART-B 11. Explain the hardware for implementation of integer addition and subtraction. 12. Explain the hardware for implementation of positive number multiplication. 13. Describe in detail about Booths multiplication algorithm and its hardware implementation. 14. Explain restoring and non-restoring algorithm for integer division. 15. Describe IEEE standards for single precision and double precision floating point numbers. 16. Explain in detail addition and subtraction of signed number 17. Discuss in detail carry-look ahead addition 18. Explain in detail about fast multiplication 19. Describe in detail implementation of floating point operations 20. Explain in detail about guard bits and truncation 21. Draw the diagram of ripple-carry and carry-save array and explain it UNIT-III PART-A 1. Define micro-operation. 2. What is data path. 3. What do you mean by register transfer? 4. What is structural hazard? 5. Define hard wired control. 6. What is microprogramming and microprogrammed control unit. 7. Define micro instruction. 8. What is pipelining. 9. Define hazards. 10. What are instruction hazards. 11. Draw the diagram of control unit organization PART-B 12. Draw and explain the multiple bus organization with its advantages. 13. Explain about microprogrammed control unit organization. 14. Describe about hardwired control 15. Explain about instruction and data hazards. 16. Draw and explain the single bus organization of the datapath inside a processor 17. Explain briefly about superscalar operation 18. Write short notes on microinstructions with next-address field 19. Discuss in detail pipelining UNIT-IV PART-A 1. Define asynchronous DRAM. 2. What is memory latency. 3. Define memory band width.

4. Compare flash drives with hard-disk drives. 5. Define hit rate. 6. Define virtual memeory. 7. Define MFC. 8. Draw the diagram of memory hierarchy. 9. What do you mean by TLB. 10. Define miss penalty. 11. Define virtual address 12. What is memory access time? PART-B 13. Describe various types of semiconductor memories. 14. Draw and explain the organization for ROM and PROM. 15. Describe in detail about cache memory. 16. Explain in detail about virtual memory. 17. Explain in briefly secondary storage 18. Write short notes on RAMBUS memory and RAID disk array 19. Explain in detail internal organization of memory chips UNIT-V PART-A 1. What is I/O interface. 2. Difference between memory mapped I/O and I/O mapped I/O. 3. Define interrupt latency. 4. Define debugging. 5. Define vectored interrupts. 6. What is privileged instruction? 7. What is SCSI bus? 8. Define packets and pipe in connection with USB. 9. List out the features of PCI bus. 10. What is centralized arbitration? PART-B 11. Explain in detail about interrupt operation. 12. Describe about centralized and distributed arbitration 13. With a neat diagram explain the functions of DMA. 14. Explain PCI bus structure with a neat diagram. 15. Explain about USB system. 16. Discuss in detail synchronous and asynchronous bus 17. Explain in detail parallel port in interface circuits 18. Discuss in detail use of interrupts in OS