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Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering: Viva Questions

1. The document contains 50 questions related to electronics and communication engineering viva questions on topics like pipelining in 8086 processor, effective address calculation, memory segmentation, assembler directives, interrupts, comparison of 8085 and 8086, flag format, physical and offset addresses, versions of 8086, purpose of signals like CLK and LATCH, string and lock instructions, assembler directives, DMA controller modes, timer modes and control word format, USART, serial vs parallel communication, keyboard and display controller functions, PPI, 8255 control word formats, microprocessor vs microcontroller differences, 8051 features, addressing modes, registers like TCON, RAM and ROM sizes, and use of B-register

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Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering: Viva Questions

1. The document contains 50 questions related to electronics and communication engineering viva questions on topics like pipelining in 8086 processor, effective address calculation, memory segmentation, assembler directives, interrupts, comparison of 8085 and 8086, flag format, physical and offset addresses, versions of 8086, purpose of signals like CLK and LATCH, string and lock instructions, assembler directives, DMA controller modes, timer modes and control word format, USART, serial vs parallel communication, keyboard and display controller functions, PPI, 8255 control word formats, microprocessor vs microcontroller differences, 8051 features, addressing modes, registers like TCON, RAM and ROM sizes, and use of B-register

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Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

VIVA QUESTIONS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. What you mean by pipelining in 8086 processor? How the 20 bit effective address is calculated in 8086 processor? What are the advantages of using memory segmentation 8086? What is the macro & when it is used? What is the assembler directive? What is mean by s/w interrupts? Compare 8085 and 8086. What is the use of NOP? Give the flag format of 8086. What is the function of direction flag? What is physical address? Define OFFSET address. What are the versions of 8086? What is the purpose of CLK signal in an 8086 system? Differentiate the operating modes of 8086 processor? What is a segment override prefix? Give an example. What is the use of LATCH signal on the data lines? What is the need for MN/MX pin in 8086 system? What is the purpose of QUEUE in 8086 processor? Give the operation of CBW and TEST instructions of 8086? List few string instructions of 8086? What is the use of LOCK prefix? What is the purpose of REP prefix? What are assembler directives? Define a MACRO. Name the two modes of operation of DMA controller? List the operating modes of 8253 timer. Give the control word format of timer? What is the use of USART? Compare serial and parallel communication. What is the use of Keyboard and display controller? What are the functions performed by 8279? What is PPI? Give the control word format for I/O mode of 8255? Give the BSR mode format of 8255. Differentiate microprocessor and microcontrollers. Differentiate RRA and RRC A instructions of 8081. Give the format of PSW register of 8051. What is the jump range in 8051? List the features of 8051. Define a Microcontroller. What is special function registers? What is the use of PCON register? State the function of RS0 and RS1 bits of PSW? Give the interrupt priorities of 8051.

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List the addressing modes of 8051. What is the use of TCON register? What is the RAM size of 8051? What is the ROM size of 8051? What is the use of B-register in 8051?

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