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The document is a semester final assessment for a Microprocessor & Interfacing course. It contains 6 questions assessing students' knowledge of microprocessor concepts like assembly vs high-level languages, RISC vs CISC processors, data representation, performance metrics, MIPS assembly programming, and pipelining. Students are asked to describe differences, perform calculations, explain concepts, and design an assembly program to calculate the area of a circle. The assessment is worth a total of 40 marks and takes place over a 2 hour period.

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The document is a semester final assessment for a Microprocessor & Interfacing course. It contains 6 questions assessing students' knowledge of microprocessor concepts like assembly vs high-level languages, RISC vs CISC processors, data representation, performance metrics, MIPS assembly programming, and pipelining. Students are asked to describe differences, perform calculations, explain concepts, and design an assembly program to calculate the area of a circle. The assessment is worth a total of 40 marks and takes place over a 2 hour period.

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School of Science and Engineering

Semester Final Assessment Semester: Spring 2021


Course Code: CSE 307 Course Title: Microprocessor & Interfacing
Section: 02 Course Teacher: Md Rakib Hossain (RaK)
Assessment Date: 2nd June 2021 Assessment Time: 9.00 AM-11.00AM

Assessment Hour: 2 Hours Full Marks: 40

Question 1: [Microprocessor]

Describe the differences of the followings:


a) Assembly Language vs High-Level Language. [2 Marks]
b) RISC processor vs CISC processor. [2 Marks]
c) 8086 Microprocessor vs 8085 Microprocessor. [2 Marks]

Question 2: [MIPS ISA]

a) Demonstrate in MIPS instruction; how can a value be loaded into a register $25 and how it will
be cleared from that register? [2 Marks]

b) Explain; would it be correct to shift the contents of register $8 and put the result back in register
$8? Why or why not?
i. ori $8, $0, 0x6F # put bit pattern register into $8
ii. sll $8, $8, 2 # shift left logical by two
[2 Marks]

c) Explain; is a 32-bit general register likely to hold the result of multiplying two other 32- bit
registers? [2 Marks]

d) The polynomial 5x2 -12x + 97 can be calculated for a value of x in memory and then stored
the result at a location poly in memory. Examine, how many lw and sw instructions will be
needed to solve the polynomial? [2 Marks]

e) Will a 32-bit address fit inside the 32-bit beq instruction? [2 Marks]

Question 3: [Data Representation]

Compute the following operation and also show the carry and overflow in your computation (if any).
a) 1C37286A + 9395E84B (without transforming it into binary) [2 Marks]
b) 1C37286A - 9395E84B (using 2’s Complement) [2 Marks]
c) 11110110 - 10101011 (using 2’s Complement) [2 Marks]

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Question 4: [Performance]

a) A program has 50 percent of its code enhanced to yield a system speedup 2.3 times faster.
What is the factor of improvement of the portion enhanced? [3 Marks]

b) A compiler designer is trying to decide between two code sequences for a particular machine.
Based on the hardware implementation, there are three different classes of instructions: class
A, class B, and class C, and they require one, two, and three cycles per instruction, respectively.
The first code sequence has 8 instructions: 2 of A, 2 of B, and 4 of C
The second sequence has 7 instructions: 3 of A, 2 of B, and 2 of C

Compute the CPU cycles for each sequence. Which sequence is faster? What is the CPI for
each sequence? [3 Marks]

Question 5: [Assembly Program]

Utilizing MIPS ISA, create an assembly program that can calculate the area of a circle for user given
radius (r). However, if users give a radius <= 0, ask them to re-enter the correct radius value. (E.g.,
Area=πr2) [5 Marks]

Question 6: [Pipelining]

Discuss, Program Counter, Stack Pointer and Pipelining? Diagram a scenario how Pipelining improves
the performance of a processor [1+1+2+3=7 Marks]

------------------------- Good Luck --------------------------------

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