IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

LOC PART-II
UNIT-1
Q-1 a) What do you mean by state diagrams? How are these relevant in the design of flip-flop?
Explain.
b) What are excitation table? How are these relevant? Draw excitation table for RS and JK flip
flop.
Q-2 Explain the following:
a) T flip-flop
b) Master-slave flip flop and their uses
Q-3 Explain:
a) State Equation, State diagram and their uses
b) Clocked RS flip-flop

UNIT-2
Q-1 Explain:
a) What is meant by a universal shift register? Design a 4-bit shift register and outline the
procedure for serial to parallel conversion and vice-versa.
b) What are synchronous binary counters? Draw its block diagram and illustrate its operation
Q-2 Explain the following:
a) Asynchronous Sequential Circuit
b) Modulo-8 Counter. How it is useful and explain its working
Q-3 Describe the following:
a) Shift registers and their applications
b) Compare SISO and PISO
c) Modulo-6 counter. How will you design it.

UNIT-3
Q-1 Explain:
a) What is semiconductor RAM? How do you design a RAM cell? Illustrate.
b) What are I/O device controllers? How these work? Illustrate their working.
Q-2 Explain the following:
a) Magnetic Disks
b) Characteristics of Memory Cell
Q-3 Explain:
a) What is ROM? What are its types and where it is used?
b) Flash Memory
Q-4 Explain:
a) Optical Storage, their types, advantages and applications.
b) Magnetic Storage Devices with their merits and demerits.

UNIT-4
Q-1 Explain:
a) What are I/O channels? How do these work? Illustrate their working.
b) What are interrupts? How these are useful? What is interrupt structure?
Q-2 Explain:
a) Instruction Cycle
b) Instruction Format
Q-3 Explain:
a) What is addressing? How it is used? Discuss its various modes and applications with
examples.
b) IOP and its application
Q-4 Explain:
a) Machine Instruction
b) DMA technique. How it is different from Interrupt driven I/O technique? Illustrate their
working.