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Jan 2010
Jan 2010
USN 7 CS
2 a. What are the different operating modes of 8254 programm timer? Explain.
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Write a program to generate a pulse every 50 ps on OUT — in of 8254. Assume clock
frequency is 2 MHz and starting address of counter is 08H u — {) {12 Marks)
b. Indicate how you can handle up to 8 hardware inte th 244 Buffer and the
single INTR. line of the processor. How could you h multiple interrupt with this
arrangement? (08 Marks)
3 a List and describe the functions of internal registe controller. (10 Marks)
(10 Marks)
4 a. Describe how the IF and TF flags are set a (05 Marks)
b. Briefly describe a printer interface to A using an auxiliary 8088 processor for
handling the printer and spooler. (05 Marks)
¢. Convert the decimal number — 100. gle and Double precision formats as per the
IEEE 754 standard. (10 Marks)
5 a. What do the different bits in gister of 8087 co-processor indicate? (04 Marks)
b. Describe the various T ion that can be directly generated by the 80 x 87
processor? (06 Marks)
c. Given the USB conne lain the process of generating USB data from raw
(10 Marks)
6 a. i explain:
ii) Configuration space iii) PCI BIOS. (10 Marks)
b. i istic features of the RISC and CISC processors. (10 Marks)
explain address translation in protected mode of 80386 with paging
(10 Marks)
s of 80386 Microprocessor. {10 Marks)
II to Pentium IV with respect to data bus, address capability, cache
(10 Marks)
(05 Marks)
ient features of 80486 Microprocessor. (05 Marks)
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