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Computer Organization and Architecture

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Chapter -1

Q. What is register transfer language? Explain it with example.


Q. Explain the block diagram of register with its timing diagram.
Q. Explain the various microoperations performed in registers.
Q. Explain arithmetic microoperations.
Q. Implement the arithmetic circuit using arithmetic microoperations.
Q. What are shift microoperations? Explain with example. Design 4 bit combinational circuit
for shifter.
Q. Draw the block diagram of a computer and explain the function of each block.
Q. Discuss Booth Multiplication algorithm with the help of suitable example.
Q. Define Addressing Modes. What are the different types of addressing modes?
Q. Briefly explain an instruction format.
Q. What do you mean by instruction cycle, fetch cycle, machine cycle and interrupt
acknowledgement cycle?
Q. Explain in detail the difference between RISC and CISC Architecture?
Q. What are the advantage of RISC over CISC.
Q. Explain the various Addressing modes in detail.
Q. Write a note an general register organization.
Q. Explain the working of carry look ahead adder.
Q. What is stack organization?
Q. Give the case study on 8085 microprocessor.
Q. Define Guard bit and truncation.
Q. List and explain the steps involved in the execution of a complete instruction.
Q. State the condition in which overflow occurs in case of addition and substraction of signal
2’s complement number. How it is detected?

Chapter-2
Q. What is the concept of layers in architectural design?
Q. Give the features of a ROM cell.
Q. Difference between Computer Architecture and computer organization.
Q. Discuss the importance of performance measure in computer hardware design. Also
state the advantages and disadvantages of layers in architectural design.
Q. What is the difference between a hardwired implementation and a micro programmed
Implementation of a control unit?
Q. What do you understand by a micro operation? Explain. Draw the diagram of
microprogram sequence and explain its working.
Q. What is control memory?
Q. What is micro-programming? What are the advantages and disadvantages of micro
programming?
Q. What is Cache Memory?
Q. What are the properties of cache memory?
Q. What is the need of control unit in computer? Draw the control unit of a basic computer.
Q. Discuss how fetch and decode phases are carried out.
Q. What is the difference between micro program and micro code?
Q. What is the role of Shift Registers in digital computers?
Q. Write about DMA Transfer.
Q. What is meant by DMA?
Q. Discuss DMA with help of schematic diagram of controller.
Q. Explain in detail how Direct Memory Access system works by taking a suitable example
showing the various stages.
Q. What do you mean by software and hardware interrupts? How these are used in a
microprocessor system?
Q. Discuss the various I/O data transfer techniques alongwith their merits and demerits.
Q. What is memory organisation? Explain various memories.
Q. Explain the design and working of a micro programmed control unit.
Q. Give five examples of external interrupt and five examples of internal interrupt

Chapter -3
Q. What is the difference between serial and parallel processing?
Q. Write short note on Vector processors.
Q. What is instruction pipelining?
Q. Explain pipelining in CPU design.
Q. What is pipeline processor? What are advantages of it?
Q. What are the different types of hazards in case of instruction pipeline?
Q. How pipelining would improve the performance of CPU? Justify.
Q. Write short note on Hazards of pipelining.
Q. What are the reasons of Pipe-Line conflicts in a Pipe Lined processor? How are they
resolved?
Q. Explain about the multiprocessor.
Q. Write and explain types of parallel processor systems.
Q. What is a Cache Coherence.

Chapter- 4
Q. What do you mean by Associative memory and its application?
Q. What is the need for a cache memory? Where is it located in a computer?
Q. Differentiate among direct mapping and associate mapping.
Q. What do you mean by memory hierarchy? Briefly discuss.
Q. What do you mean by interleaved memory?
Q. What are the advantages you got with virtual memory?
Q. What is the difference between memories mapped I/O and Isolated V/O? What are the
advantages and disadvantages of each?
Q. Explain the following terms:
a) Cache Memory
(b) Interleaved Memories
(c) Associative Memory
Q. What is memory interleaving? How is it different from Cache memory?
Q. Discuss the various mapping schemes used in cache design. Compare the schemes in
terms of cost and performance.
Q. What do you understand by locality of reference? How is it helpful in improving the
performance of memory? Discuss with example.
Q. Explain how cache memory is different from virtual memory. Also, discuss various page
replacement policies for virtual memory with examples.
Q. Explain memory management hardware.
Q. A computer employs RAM chips of 256 x 8 and ROM chips of 1024 x 8. The computer
system needs 2k bytes of RAM, 4k bytes of ROM, and four interface units, each with four
registers. A memory-mapped I/O configuration is used. The two highest-order bits of the
address bus are assigned 00 for RAM, 01 for ROM, and 10 for interface registers. Draw a
memory address map for the system.
Q. Explain any five memory reference instructions in detail..

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