Code No: 26807 RA Set No.

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III B.Tech II Semester Supplimentary Examinations,January 2010
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Electronics And Communication Engineering
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
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1. Explain the need of special architecture for pipelining and parallelism. [16]

2. Explain in detail about RT-level combinational components used in embedded sys-

tems.

(a) Multiplexer
(b) n-bit adder. [8+8]

3. (a) What is an embedded system? Why is it so hard to define?

(b) List the applications of embedded systems. [8+8]

4. Explain in detail about program-state machine model. [16]

5. Write short notes on the following:

(a) Instruction set simulator

(b) HDL simulator
(c) Simulators. [6+5+5]

6. List and describe three general approaches to improving designer productivity.[16]

7. (a) Explain the services provided by the operating system?

(b) What is meant by system calls? Write the purpose of the system calls. Mention
few system calls. [8+8]

8. (a) Explain rate monotonic priority scheduling algorithm with an example.

(b) Explain deadline monotonic priority assignment scheduling algorithm with an
example. [8+8]

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