VINAYAKA MISSIONS UNIVERSITY V.M.K.

V ENGINEERING COLLEGE, SALEM

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING BE(PT) MICROPROCESSOR AND MICRO CONTROLLER QUESTION BANK UNIT I PART A 1. What is Microprocessor? 2. What are the basic units of a microprocessor? 3. How many hardware interrupts are there in 8085? 4. What is the use of AC Flag in 8085? 5. What are the features of microprocessor? 6. Classify the instructions based on addressing mode. 7. Classify the instructions based on size. 8. Classify the instructions based on operation. 9. What are the hardware interrupts available in 8085? 10. What are the software interrupts available in 8085? 11. What is meant by maskable interrupt and non maskable interrupt? 12. What is meant by vectored interrupt and non vectored interrupt? 13. What is a bus? 14. Define Bit, Byte and Word. 15. Why the data bus is bidirectional? 16. What is the function of Accumulator? 17. List the four operations commonly performed by the MPU. 18. Specify the function of the address bus and the direction of the information flow on the address bus. 19. What is pipelined architecture? 20. What is the function of the WR signal on the memory chip? 21. How many memory locations can be addressed by a microprocessor with 14 address lines? 22. State the function of ALE signal of the 8085microprocessor. 23. Show the bit position of various flags in 8085. 24. What is program counter? 25. Mention the names of various registers in 8085 along with its size. PART B 1. Explain briefly the architecture of 8085 processor.

2. Draw the PIN configuration of 8085 and explain the functional usage of each pin in detail. 3. Explain the classification of instruction set of 8085 microprocessor with examples. 4. Define Interrupt? Explain its types in detail 5. Explain the procedure for Addition and Subtraction of two BCD numbers 6.Sketch the functional block diagram of general 8-bit microprocessor and explain its function. 7.Draw the functional block diagram of 8085 p and explain their functions. 8.Draw the pin diagram of 8085 p and explain the function of each pin. 9.Draw and explain about i) Bus structure of 8085 p ii) Flag register of 8085 p 10.Discuss the function of following i) General purpose registers. ii) Timing and control unit iii) Stack pointer

UNIT II PART-A 1. What are the types of addressing modes? 2. What is the Data transfer? 3. What is the Data manipulation? 4. What are the control instructions? 5. What are the uses of flow chat? 6. Discuss about look up table? 7. Discuss about the Subroutine? 8. What is the use of addressing mode? 9. What is the memory interface? 10. What is the use of stack? 11.Give an example for assembly format. 12.State assembly directive.

13.How arithmetic operations are performed in 8085? 14.Mention about assembler. 15. Convert the following HEX numbers in to BCD i. 5F ii. FF 16.Convert the following Decimal numbers in to Binary iii. 137 iv. 435 17.Differentiate between Stack and Stack pointer. 18.What is meant by LIFO? Where it is performed in 8085? 19.Write an 8085 program to generate a time delay of 0.4sec given crystal frequency 5MHZ. 20.Write 8085 assembly language instructions to store the contents of the flag register in memory location 2000H. 21. Write 8085 assembly language instructions to store the contents of the flag register in memory location 2000H. 22. Write 8085 assembly language Program to add two 8-bit numbers. 23. Write 8085 assembly language Program to subtract two 8-bit numbers 24. Write any four instructions to perform the Logical operations in 8085. 25. Differentiate between Conditional Jump and Unconditional Jump PART-B 1. With suitable examples explain the addressing modes of 8085 microprocessor 2. Explain the Instruction format? 3. Explain the Assembly language format? 4. Explain the sum of series used in loop instructions? 5. Explain the i) Look up table ii)Subroutine 6. Explain in detail about (i) Assembly format of 8085 p.

(ii) Assembly directives 7. Write a program for addition of 16 bit numbers. 8. Write a program for converting a binary numbers to BCD numbers. 9. Discuss the following in detail (iii) Stack (iv)Subroutine 10. (i) List out the advantages of assembler. (ii) Mention the uses of lookup table. UNIT III PART A 1. What is meant by interfacing? 2. Give the chip number for DMA controller, PPI, PIC. 3. Give the control word format for Mode set register in 8257. 4. What is meant by fixed priority in DMA? 5. Define cycle Stealing. 6. Define In Service Register. 7. Write a note on IMR, IRR and ISR. 8. What is meant by memory mapped I/O? 9. What is meant by I/O mapped I/O? 10. Name the major blocks of 8259. 11. What you mean by input and output port 12. List out the steps to interface memory with microprocessor 13. Draw the control word format of 8255? 14. Give the application of ADC and DAC 15. Discuss about IRR 16. Discuss about simple I/O mode 17.What is the function of BD signal in 8279?

18.Draw the circuit for DAC? 19.Compare different types of AIA standards? 20.List the features of 8279? 21.Draw the functional pen diagram of 8279? 22. What do you mean by encoded and decoded scan? 23. What is the difference between A/D and D/A converters? 24. Write the advantages of ADC? 25. Compare RAM and ROM PART B 1. Explain in detail about the memory interfacing 2. Explain in detail the architecture of 8259. 3. With neat sketch explain the architecture of DMA. 4. Describe the interrupt structure with neat sketch. 5. What are the major blocks of interrupt control, explain with neat sketch. 6. .Explain the D/A and D/A? 7.Discuss the DMA data transfer schemes in detail. 8.Sketch the block diagram of IC 8255 and explain its function 9.What is IC 8251? Explain its operation in detail with a diagram 10.Explain the functions of IC 8279 key board / display controller with a block diagram

UNIT IV PART A 1. What are the types of addressing modes? 2. Write the application of microcontrollers? 3. What are the major blocks of 8051? 4. Give the control mode format of 8251. 5. What is the interface used for serial communication. 6. Define the real time clock 7. What is the use of bit wise manipulation? 8. Define the cross assemblers? 9. Write the number of pins in timer controller. 10. Write the difference between timer and counter 11. List the features of 8051 microcontroller? 12. Mention few functional unit of 8051 micro controller. 13. Show the bit positions of flag register in PSW. 14. Name the special functions registers available in 8051. 15. State the function of DTPR. 16. Explain the operating mode 0 of 8051 serial ports? 17. Explain the operating mode2 of 8051 serial ports? 18. State the function of IP register 19. Explain the mode3 of 8051 serial ports? 20. Explain the interrupts of 8051 microcontroller? 21. List the addressing modes of 8051? 22. Write about the jump statement? 23. What is Relative addressing? Give an example? 24. Write a program to add 2 8-bit numbers using 8051? 25. What is register indirect addressing? Give an example?

PART B 1. Explain the 8051 bit microcontrollers 2. Draw and explain the real time clock? 3. Explain the pin configuration of 8051 Microcontroller 4. Explain the working of 8251 serial communication interface 5. Explain the transmission and Reception of serial data using 8251 indicating the functional of various registers in it 6.Draw the functional block diagram of 8051 and explain their functions. 7.What are the different addressing modes available in 8051 microcontroller Explain with example? 8.Discuss the purpose of special function register with neat diagram 9.Draw the format of Timer Mode Control Register and explain the modes of operation. 10.With neat sketch explain the following i) Timer control register ii) Interrupt Enable Register iii) Interrupt priority register

UNIT-V PART A 1. What is meant by data transfer? 2. What are the different types instructions used in microcontroller? 3. Write some data transfer instruction used in interfacing 4. Give the look up table for rotating the stepper motor in clock wise. 5. Give the look up table for rotating the stepper motor in anti clock wise. 6. List out the application of stepper motor.

7. List out the application of ADC. 8. List out the application of DAC. 9. What is the interface used to control the DC stepped motor. 10. What type of interface is used for interfacing the stepper motor with 8085? 11. Give examples of optoisolator pakage. 12. What is a stepper motor control? 13. What is the relation between rpm, steps per revolution and steps per second? 14. What is step angle in a stepper motor? 15. What is holding torque? 16. What are the types of stepper motor? 17. What are the advantages of low address signals and high address signals? 18. Draw the memory read machine cycle diagram? 19. Draw the timing diagram of 8051? 20. What is meant by counter? 21. What is timer? 22. Write the types of timer modes 23. What are the advantages of microcontroller used in hardware side? 24. Define interface. 25. What is USART? PART B 1. Explain the operation of stepper motor with neat sketch. 2. How will you interface the stepper motor with 8085.Explain? 3. With neat flowchart, Explain how will you interface the stepper motor with 8085. 4. With the help of block diagram explain the analog approach to control the speed of DC motor 5. Explain the Interfacing Alpha numeric displays to microprocessor 6. i) Write the program for finding the 2s complement of the number and perform the

addition of two 8 bit numbers ii)Short notes on external memory interfacing. 7.Describe the basic operation of a relay and interface the 8051 with a relay. 8. Describe the basic operation of an optoisolator and interface the 8051 with an optoisolator. 9. Describe the basic operation of a stepper motor and interface the 8051 with a stepper motor. 10. Describe the basic operation of a DC motor and interface the 8051 with a DC motor.