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B.E./B.Tech.DEGREEEXAMINATION,NOVEMBER/DECEMBER2007.
Fifth Semester
Electronics and Communication Engineering
EC 336 - COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

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(Common to Bio-Medical Engineering)

Maximum : 100 marks

Time : Three hours

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Answer ALL questions.

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PART A - (10 x2 = 20 marks)

What is a Turing machine?

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What is micro programming?

3.

How is overflow detected?

4.

Differentiate between sequential and combinational logic circuits.

5.

What is the difference between hardwired control and micro-programmed

control?

6.

What are micro control and nano-controlmemories?

7.

What are virtual and cachememories?

8.

Differentiate between preemptive and non-preemptive memory allocation?

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How do deadlock problem occursin system organization?

10.

What are the causesfor hardware and software redundancy?

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PARTB-(5x16=80marks)
11. (a)

(i)

What are the two types of circuits used at register level? Give
(4)
example for each and compare.

(ii)

Explain the following register level components; Multiplexer,

(4 x 3 = L2)
Encoder and Decoder,Register, and Array logic.
Or

(b)

12. (a)

With suitable examples explain in detail about instruction formats and

(8 + 8)
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Explain the basic adders, subtractors, decimal adders. Booth algorithm.
(4x4=16)

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Write notes on the following: Fixed and Floating point representation,

2's compliment addition and subtraction, and Decimal frxed-point
(4x4=I6)
representation.

(a)

Explain the following: :

Stay table method

(ii)

Delay element method

(iii)

Sequencecounter method

(iv)

Multiplier control unit of hardwired control

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L4.

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(4x4=16)

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(b)

Explain the Nano-programming, nano-data, and nano-programme control

(16)
of nano-computer.

Write notes on
(i)

RAM

(ii)

Associativememory

(iii)

Word-organizedmemory

(iv)

Variable length data memory.

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(b)

15. (a)

Explain the main memory allocation with respect to the following :

Preemptive allocation, Non-preemptive allocation, Replacement policies
(4 x 4 = 16)
and Stack replaeement policies.
(i)

Expiain different DMA data transfer methods with an example. (10)

(ii)

Define an Interrupt.
non-vectoredinterrupts.

Differentiate

between

vectored

and
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What is a fault tolerance computer? Explain its design techniques and its
(16)
reliability analysis.

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