Reg. No.:|9 B.E/B.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009 FOURTH/THIRD SEMESTER COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING CS1202 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE (Common to Information Technology) (REGULATION 2007) ‘Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks 10. Answer ALL questions. PART A— (10x 2= 20 marks) ‘What are Big-endian and Little-endian assignments? What are assembler directives? What are the techniques used for high-speed multiplication? Show the single precision IEEE standard floating point format. Write the control sequence for execution of the instruction Add (R3), R1. What is the objective of dynamic branch prediction algorithm? Define cycle stealing. What is PCI? List the advantages and disadvantages of static RAM. What is locality of reference?12. 13, 14, 15. 16. 18. @) () @ ) @ ) @ ) ) (a) ) @) ) @ @) PART B — (5 x 16 = 80 marks) Explain the functional units of a computer. Describe the measures used in analyzing the performance of a comput system. Or Discuss the uses of one, two and three address instructions examples. Explain the various addressing modes. Give example for each. « Explain Booth’s multiplication algorithm. Illustrate with an example. (1 Draw and explain 4-bit carry-look ahead adder. ( Or Describe the function of n-bit binary divider with an example. 9) Discuss the arithmetic operations on floating point numbers. © Explain about Multi bus organization, (19) Compare Micro programmed control unit with Hardwired control unit. (6) Or What is Data hazard? Explain the methods used to overcome data hazards. ® Write about super scalar operation. ® List the sequence of events involved in handling an interrupt request from a single device. ® Write note on DMA. ® Or What is bus arbitration? Explain. Describe the function of SCSI bus.19. (@) Discuss the organization of bit cells in a memory chip. ® " ®)_ Explain the direct’ and associative mapping methods in the Cache memory organization. ®) “Or 20. (a) Explain the Virtual memory address translation method. ®) (b) Describe the function any two storage devices.” ®