MODEL EXAMINATION COA IMPORTANT QUESTIONS 2 MARKS

1. What is Control Word? 2. Difference between Synchronous and Asynchronous DRAM. 3. Why Data Bus is Bi-Directional and Address Bus is Uni-Directional in most

Microprocessors.
4. List the Differences between SRAM and DRAM. 5. Define Latency and Bandwidth. 6. Define DMA. 7. Draw Full Adder Circuit & Give Truth Table. 8. List the types of Interrupts. 9. Define Flash Drive. 10. List the Types of Micro Operations. 11. Define Pipeline Processing. 12. List Factors that determine Storage device performance. 13. Write IEEE Standard for Floating Point Format. 14. What are the steps taken when an interrupt occurs? 15. Distinguish between Hardwired and Micro programmed Control Unit 16. Define Bus

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1. Draw the Diagram of Carry Look Ahead Adder & Explain its Principle. 2. Write in detail about Various Addressing Modes. 3. Explain Non-Restoring Division Technique. 4. Explain Booths Algorithm for multiplication of signed 2s Compliment Number with an

Example.
5. What is Data Hazard? Explain the methods for dealing with the Data Hazard. 6. Explain Multiple Bus Organization in Detail. 7. What are Interrupts? Explain the Handling Techniques.

8. What do you mean by Virtual Memory? Discuss How Paging helps in determining virtual

memory.
9. Design the typical Input/ Output (I/O) interface. 10. Discuss various hazards that may arise in pipeline. What are the memories commonly

adopted to overcome or minimize these hazards?

11. Discuss different Mapping Techniques used in Cache memories and their relative merits

and demerits.
12. Discuss any 6 ways of improving cache performance. 13. Illustrate Memory Read & Write Operation of DRAM. 14. Explain with block diagram the DMA Transfer in Computer System. 15. Write in Detail about Micro programmed control unit along with its block diagram. 16. Explain How Performance of instruction pipeline can be improved. 17. Give the organization of typical Hardwired Control Unit and explain the functions

performed by various blocks.

18. Explain Various Instruction Formats in Detail. 19. Give the block diagram of Hardware Implementation of Addition & Subtraction of

Signed Number & Explain the Organization with the flow chart.