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Code No: D5803
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD
M.Tech II SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS, APRIL/MAY-2013
ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
(COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING)
Time: 3hours Max.Marks:60
Answer any five questions
All questions carry equal marks
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1. What are the tasks of a computer designer? What is the difference between cost
and price? Why they differ with each other and by how much? Explain with an
example.

2. a) What is the code sequence for C =( A+B) * (A-B) /(A*B) for four classes of
Instruction sets.
b) What is the difference between Little endian and big endian format? Explain
advantages and disadvantages of the three most common types of general Purpose
register computers.

3.a) What is an instruction set? Explain the three classes of instructions in RISC
Architectures.
b) Write a note on Implementation of RISC instruction set?

4.a) What are the main differences between virtual memory and cache? How can
you map a virtual address to a physical address via a page table?
b) How can you reduce cache miss penalty?

5. What is an Instruction level parallelism? And write about Hardware based
Speculation?

6. Explain various software approaches to improve Instruction Level Parallelism.
(Give examples).

7. Write short notes on the following
a) Thread level parallelism b) Synchronization

8.a) Write about Interconnection network media
b) Explain the following
i) Clusters ii) Sequential consistency

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