Code No: RR411002

Set No. 1

IV B.Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, November 2007 PC BASED INSTRUMENTATION ( Common to Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering and Instrumentation & Control Engineering) Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80 Answer any FIVE Questions All Questions carry equal marks 1. Draw the Block diagram of hardware subsystems of real - time control system and describe the function of each module? [16] 2. With a gure explain about the essential features of operating system for PC based Instrumentation in detail. [16] 3. Write about the following in detail in the Data Bus Distribution with a diagram: (a) MD Bus. (b) XD Bus. [8+8]

4. (a) What are the design considerations in dening the micro computer bus structures? (b) Explain the operation of star architecture topology by clearly giving out the Advantages and disadvantages? [8+8] 5. Explain in detail the I/O port addresses used by standard devices in the IBM PC. [16] 6. Describe in detail the interfacing details of a mouse to an IBM PC. 7. (a) Explain the features of ADC/DAC/Digital I/o card. (b) Discuss the power requirements, Base address selection and I/o map of the card. [8+8] 8. (a) What are the uses of jumpers in the add-on card? (b) Write the procedure for Digital to analog conversion. (c) How the I/o port addresses of the Digital I/o and timer card are selected? [5+6+5] [16]

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Code No: RR411002

Set No. 2

IV B.Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, November 2007 PC BASED INSTRUMENTATION ( Common to Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering and Instrumentation & Control Engineering) Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80 Answer any FIVE Questions All Questions carry equal marks 1. What is the purpose of using display control module in the automated system. Describe the operation of dierent sub-modules of display- module? [16] 2. What is the overview of the features of additional software modules ? discuss about them in detail. [16] 3. Sketch a gure showing the internal blocks of DMA Logic with interconnections and explain the functions of each block in detail. [16] 4. Explain VME bus, (a) Hardware specications. (b) Bus format specications. 5. Explain in detail the memory allocation used in IBM PC. [16] [16]

6. Describe the Architecture of 8255 PIO with a neat diagram and explain the functions of modes and operations. [16] 7. (a) What are the types of faults in the add-on card you should catch by a careful visual inspection? (b) What are the series of checks should be done to conrm that the add-on card is faulty or good? [8+8] 8. (a) What is a driver? (b) What is a Virtual Machine? (c) Explain Processor Mode, Protected Mode and Virtual Mode. [5+6+5]

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Code No: RR411002

Set No. 3

IV B.Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, November 2007 PC BASED INSTRUMENTATION ( Common to Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering and Instrumentation & Control Engineering) Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80 Answer any FIVE Questions All Questions carry equal marks 1. Describe the role of support chips used by the motherboard of PC in detail? [16] 2. With a gure explain about the essential features of operating system for PC based Instrumentation in detail. [16] 3. Give the circuit diagram and the circuit description for the Data bus Logic. [16] 4. Explain bus utility signals with illustrations indicating the protocols. [16]

5. Draw the overview of the IBM PC system board indicating the address, data and control buers and 8259 interrupt controller. Explain the salient features of them. [16] 6. Describe in detail the interfacing details of a mouse to an IBM PC. [16]

7. (a) What are the types of faults in the add-on card you should catch by a careful visual inspection? (b) What are the series of checks should be done to conrm that the add-on card is faulty or good? [8+8] 8. Write a program in C to demonstrate the operation of both D/A and A/D converters. [16]

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Code No: RR411002

Set No. 4

IV B.Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, November 2007 PC BASED INSTRUMENTATION ( Common to Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering and Instrumentation & Control Engineering) Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80 Answer any FIVE Questions All Questions carry equal marks 1. Draw the Basic Building blocks of Automation system and explain it in detail?[16] 2. Draw the diagram showing the functional units in the Mother board and the communication between the units and explain its operation. [16] 3. List the dierent blocks in a new Generation mother board and explain its design in detail. [16] 4. Give the Hardware specications VME bus. Explain the data transfer protocols with respect to VME bus. [16] 5. Explain in detail the memory allocation used in IBM PC. [16]

6. Sketch the general form of the bus interface for a smart peripheral IC 8255 PIO and explain the salient features of it. [16] 7. Explain I/o ports, Display Mode control port and Display status port in Monochrome Graphics Adapter (MDA). [16] 8. (a) Explain the basic structure of a Virtual Device Driver. (b) Discuss the tools for building Virtual Device Drivers (VXDS). [8+8]

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