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U.S.N
P.E.S. College of Engineering, Mandya - 571 401
(An Autonomous Institution affiliated to VTU, Belagavi)
Third Semester, B.E. - Information Science and Engineering
Semester End Examination; March / April - 2022
Computer Organization and Architecture
Time: 3 hrs Max. Marks: 100
Course Outcomes
The Students will be able to:
CO1: Analyze program execution.
CO2: Explain the basic input/output operations.
CO3: Develop the control sequence for a given instruction.
CO4: Design the memory system using various techniques.
CO5: Analyze different algorithms for performing arithmetic operations and understand need for multithread.
Note: I) PART - A is compulsory. Two marks for each question.
II) PART - B: Answer any Two sub questions (from a, b, c) for Maximum of 18 marks from each unit.
Q. No. Questions Marks BLs COs
I : PART - A 10
I a. Write basic performance equation and explain each term. 2 L2 CO1
b. List operations performed by call and branch instructions. 2 L1 CO2
c. Write actions required to perform read operation for the instruction,
2 L2 CO3
MOV (R1), R2
d. Differentiate SRAM and DRAM. 2 L2 CO4
e. Write Amdahl’s law equation. 2 L2 CO5
II : PART - B 90
UNIT - I 18
1 a. Explain connection between processor and memory which is established
9 L2 CO1
during instruction execution.
b. With an example, list and explain basic instruction types. 9 L2 CO1
c. Explain different types of addressing modes. 9 L2 CO1
UNIT - II 18
2 a. Explain Basic push, pop operation, push and pop using auto increment
and auto decrement, Routine used for safe push and safe pop operation 9 L2 CO2
with respect to stack.
b. What are interrupts? Discuss different approaches used by the processor
9 L2 CO2
to handle simultaneous requests.
c. Discuss input and output operation of asynchronous bus. 9 L2 CO2
UNIT - III 18
3 a. Explain Multi bus organization of a processor. 9 L2 CO3
b. Write a control sequence for ADD (R3), R1 and unconditional branch
9 L3 CO3
instruction.
c. Discuss concept of fetching a word from a memory. 9 L2 CO3
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UNIT - IV 18
4 a. Explain direct and associative cache mapping. 9 L2 CO4
b. Explain static RAM cell and CMOS memory cell. 9 L2 CO4
c. Explain with neat representation the memory hierarchy based on speed,
9 L2 CO4
size and cost.
UNIT - V 18
5 a. Perform sequential multiplication of M = 1101 and Q = 1011 and also
9 L3 CO5
write circuit for binary multiplier.
b. Explain Flynn’s taxonomy. 9 L2 CO5
c. Discuss multi threading on single-core versus multi-core platform. 9 L2 CO5
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