COA QUESTIONS
PART-A
5x 2M =10
Define interrupt?
What is Auxiliary Memory?
What is DMA?
Find out the normalized sum for below example?
a) X = 0.9504 * 10 exponent 3
b) Y= 0.8200*10 exponent 2
5. What is shared memory?
6. What is Hit Ratio?
7. What is Associative Memory?
8. Draw neat diagrams of DMA Controller and RAM Chip?
9. Define fixed point representation?
10. What is a Multiprocessor and Cache Coherence?
11. What is a fixed point notation?
12. What is Cache Memory?
13. Example of I/O Interface?
14. What is parallel processor?
15. What is Interprocessor Communication?
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PART-B
4 x 5 M = 20 M
1. Explain Floating Point arithmetic Operations?
a) Hardware implementation for signed Magnitude data for Addition and Subtraction?
2. Describe I/O Interface with neat diagram?
3. Define Priority interrupt and Explain Daisy Chain Priority (Serial) and Parallel Priority?
a) Explain Pipeline processing with below example
Ai* Bi + Ci for i = 1, 2, 3,. , 7?
4. Write Arithmetic and instruction pipeline with steps?
5. Describe Booth Multiplication Algorithm with example?
6. Explain Modes of Transfer?
7. Explain asynchronous data transfers and techniques?
8. Describe RISC and CISC characteristics ?
b) Explain
Interconnection Structures with neat circuit diagrams?
9. Describe Multiplication Algorithm (with example and flow chart)?
10. Explain the block diagram of DMA transfer in detail?
11. Discuss the strobe control and handshake methods of asynchronous data transfer?
12. What is Cache Coherence problem discuss solutions for it?