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NEW PRINCE SHRI BHAVANI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND

TECHNOLOGY
B.E./B.Tech. DEGREE MODEL EXAMINATION, 2013-2014(ODD SEM)
Fifth Semester
THIRD YEAR (ECE)
EC2303 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND ORGANISATION
(Regulation 2008)
Date: 21-08-2013 Time : 9.30 am 12.30 pm
Maximum: 100 Marks

PART A (10 x 2 = 10 Marks)

1. What is Von neuman bottleneck and how to deal it?

2. Solve: 13*-6 using Modified Booths Algorithm.
3. Briefly write about elements of computing/ basic functional units of
computing.
4. Define mantissa overflow and mantissa underflow.
5. What is the use of condition code register?
6. Define Spatial Expansion and temporal expansion.
7. What is ALU expansion and list out its types
8. State the difference between hardwired control and micro programmed
control unit.
9. What is microprogram?
10. Draw a full adder circuit using 2 half adders.

PART B (5 x 16 = 80 Marks)
11. a) Explain about fixed point arithmetic (basic adders, serial binary adder,
ripple carry adder and subtractors) (16)
(or)
11. b) i) Explain Restoring division algorithm, flowchart hardware
implementation diagram and solve: dividend=1010, divisor=0011(Restoring and
Non Restoring) (12)
11. b) ii) Briefly describe about Coprocessors(4)
12. a) i) Explain about carry look ahead adder(8)
12. a) ii) Explain the working of a floating point adder/ subtractor. Explain how
floating point additional/ subtraction is performed with an example.(8)
(or)
12. b) Explain about Register Level (16)
13. a) Explain about Processor Level (16)
(or)
13. b) i) Explain about ALU (10)
13.b) ii) Give the algorithm for multiplication of signed 2s complement
numbers and solve -5*-4 and -5*4(6)
14. a) i) Explain about Instruction set Pipeline and pipeline performance(8)
14.a) ii) Briefly describe about IAS architecture in detail(8)
(or)
14. b) Explain about Superscalar processing and its characteristics (16)
15. a) Explain Microprogrammed control unit and its advantages and
disadvantages. (16)
(or)
15. Explain about Hardwired Control Unit its advantages and disadvantages.
(16)