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FINALTERM EXAMINATION
FALL 2006 Marks: 75
CS501 - ADVANCE COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE Time: 120min

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Please read the following instructions carefully before attempting any

of the questions:
1. Students are allowed to use calculators in this exam.
2. Attempt all questions. Marks are written adjacent to each question.
3. Do not ask any questions about the contents of this examination
from anyone.
a. If you think that there is something wrong with any of the
 questions, attempt it to the best of your understanding.
b. If you believe that some essential piece of information is
missing, make an appropriate assumption and use it to solve the
problem.
c. Write all steps, missing steps may lead to deduction of marks.
4. Exam is Closed Book. No handouts or extra material is allowed in
exam hall other than rough sheet which will be provided by the
examiner.
**WARNING: Please note that Virtual University takes serious note of unfair
means. Anyone found involved in cheating will get an `F` grade in this
course.

For Teacher's use only

Question 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total
Marks
Question 11 12 13 14 15 16
Marks
Question
Marks

Question No: 1 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

The _____________ RTN describes the overall effect of instructions on the programmer visible
registers.

► Abstract

► Concrete

► Absolute

► Basic

Question No: 2 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

The instruction set is of _____________ importance in governing the structure and function of the
pipeline.

► Least

► Primary

► Secondary

► No

Question No: 3 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

____________ is the most general and least useful performance metrics for RISC machines.
 ► MIPS

► Instruction Count

► Number of registers

► Clock Speed

Question No: 4 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

A __________ provides four functions: Select, DataIn, DataOut and Read/Write.

► ALU

► Bus

► Register

► Memory Cell

Question No: 5 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

We can classify or partition the SRC instructions by their overall ______________ behavior.

► Register transfer

► Memory transfer

► Execution

► Logical

Question No: 6 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

The ____________ RTN describes detailed register transfer steps in the data path that produce the
overall effect.

► Abstract

► Concrete

► Absolute

► Basic

Question No: 7 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

All members of the MC68000 family are ____________ processors.

► 32-bit
 ► 16-bit

► 64-bit

► 8-bit

Question No: 8 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

_________________ operations refers to a processor that can issue more than one instruction
simultaneously.

► Macro

► Micro

► Scalar

► Superscalar

Question No: 9 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Exception which are _______________ occur in response to events that are paced by the internal
processor clock.

► Asynchronous

► Synchronous

► Internal

► External

Question No: 10 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

In the hazard detection by hardware, resolved by pipeline stalls, if the instructions are in the
adjoining stages, then the hazard must be detected in stage __________.

► 4

► 2

► 3

► 1

Question No: 11 ( Marks: 15 )

a) What are the approaches used to design a Control unit? Briefly compare them. [5]
b) Evaluate the instruction z = 16(a -b) + 32(c+58) with the 3 address machine.[5]
c) What is the difference between “branch” and “branch link” instructions of SRC? [5]
Question No: 12 ( Marks: 10 )

A hard disk with 5 platters has 1024 tracks per platter, 512 sectors per track and 512 bytes/sector.
a) What is the total capacity of the disk? [8]
b) How many platters are required for a 80GB disk if there are 1024 bytes/sector, 2048 sectors per
track and 4096 tracks per platter. [2]

Question No: 13 ( Marks: 10 )

Consider a memory system having the following specifications. Find its total cost and cost per byte
of memory. [10]

Memory type Total bytes Cost per byte

SRAM 512 KB 50$ per MB

DRAM 256 MB 2$ per MB

Disk 3 GB 10$ per GB

Question No: 14 ( Marks: 10 )

Give comparison of advantages and disadvantages of serial and parallel transfer of data between
the CPU and an I/O device. [10]

Question No: 15 ( Marks: 10 )

What are different I/O techniques? Briefly describe the comparison of Interrupt driven I/O and
Polling. [3+7]

Question No: 16 ( Marks: 10 )

Assume a network with a bandwidth of 2500Mbits/sec. It has a sending overhead of 200μsec and a
receiving overhead of 160μsec. Assume two machines connected together. It is required to send a
15,000 byte message from one machine to the other (including header), and the message format
allows 15, 00 bytes in a single message. Calculate the total latency to send the message from one
machine to another assuming they are 25m apart (as in a SAN). Next, perform the same calculation
but assume the machines are 750m apart (as in a LAN).Finally, assume they are 1500Km apart (as
in a WAN). Assume that signals propagate at 1/3 of the speed of light in a conductor, and that the
speed of light is 300,000Km/sec.