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2 Marks: Question Bank Unit - Ii Datapath Design

This document contains a question bank related to datapath design and unit-II topics. It includes 2 mark, 8 mark, and 16 mark questions related to topics such as full adder circuits, pipelining, carry look ahead adders, ALU expansion, ripple carry adders, coprocessors, modified Booth algorithm, Booth multiplication, floating point numbers, and instruction pipelining. The questions range from drawing circuits to explaining algorithms and performing multiplications using different algorithms like Booth and Robertson.

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2 Marks: Question Bank Unit - Ii Datapath Design

This document contains a question bank related to datapath design and unit-II topics. It includes 2 mark, 8 mark, and 16 mark questions related to topics such as full adder circuits, pipelining, carry look ahead adders, ALU expansion, ripple carry adders, coprocessors, modified Booth algorithm, Booth multiplication, floating point numbers, and instruction pipelining. The questions range from drawing circuits to explaining algorithms and performing multiplications using different algorithms like Booth and Robertson.

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Question Bank

UNIT –II
DATAPATH DESIGN
2 Marks
1.Draw the full adder circuit (NOV/DEC 2007)
2.Define Spatial expansion. (APRIL/MAY 2008)
3.Define Temporal expansion. (APRIL/MAY 2008)
4.Define underflow and overflow. (APRIL/MAY 2008)
5.What are the disadvantages in using a ripple carry adder? (NOV/DEC 2006)
6.What is pipelining and what are the advantages of pipelining?
7.What is carry look ahead adder?
8.What is an ALU expansion? List out its types.
9.What is ripple-carry adder?
10.what is coprocessor?
11.What is modified Booth algorithm?

8 or 16 Marks
1. Illustrate Booth Algorithm with an example.
2. Design a 4-bit Carry-Look ahead Adder and explain its operation with an example.
(APRIL/MAY 2008) & (NOV/DEC 2007)
3. Draw the diagram of a carry look ahead adder and explain the carry look ahead
adder principle. (NOV/DEC 2006)
4. Design a 4-bit binary adder/ subtractor and explain its functions.
(APRIL/MAY 2008)
5. Give the algorithm for multiplication of signed 2’s complement numbers and
illustrate with an example. (APRIL/MAY 2008)
6. Write the algorithm for division of floating point numbers and illustrate with an
example. (APRIL/MAY 2008)
7. Explain the working of a floating point adder/ subtractor.Explain how floating point
additional/ subtraction is performed. (MAY/JUNE 2006) & (NOV/DEC 2006)
8. Give the IEEE standard double precision floating point format.
(NOV/DEC 2006)
9. Explain the representation of floating point numbers in detail.(MAY/JUNE 2007)
10. Design a 4-stage instruction pipeline and show how its performance is improved
over sequential execution.

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11. Explain Booth multiplication (2’s complement)algorithm and using this


algorithm perform the multiplication on the following 6-bit unsigned integer
110011 * 101100.
12. Explain Robertson algorithm and using this algorithm perform the multiplication on
the following 6-bit unsigned integer 10101010 * 11001110
13. Using Booth algorithm perform the multiplication on the following 6-bit unsigned
integer 10110011 * 11010101
14. Using Robertson algorithm perform the multiplication on the following 6-bit
unsigned integer 10110011 * 11010101
15. Explain non restoring division algorithm and using this algorithm perform the
division on the following 5-bit unsigned integer 1111 / 0011.
16. With a neat block diagram explain in detail about Combinational, sequential
ALU and the expansion of ALU.
17. With a neat block diagram explain in detail about the coprocessor.
18. Explain modified Booth algorithm with an example.

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