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Code No: C3809, C5505
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD
M.Tech I SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS, APRIL/MAY-2013
ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
(COMMON TO DIGITAL ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION
SYSTEMS, EMBEDDED SYSTEMS)
Time: 3hours Max.Marks:60
Answer any five questions
All questions carry equal marks
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1.a) Explain Amdahls law with illustrations.
b) What are the tasks of a computer designer? Discuss.

2.a) List various instruction operators. Explain them with examples.
b) Classify instruction set architectures.

3. Describe the issues of pipeline hazards. Why do they cause performance
problems? How can they be dealt with?

4.a) Discuss the working methodology of CD-ROM.
b) Explain demand paging concept with illustrations.

5. What is instruction level parallelism? Explain the approaches for exploiting this.

6.a) Describe the working methodology of very long instruction word processors.
b) Explain Tomasulos approach for dynamic scheduling.

7.a) Give the basic architecture of a distributed memory multiprocessor and explain it.
b) Explain the hardware primitives required to implement synchronization.

8.a) What is a cluster? Discuss designing a cluster.
b) Write about RAID technology.





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