Important Questions for IA-1

Part-A
1. What do you mean by hard and soft real time?
2. What is VLIW?
3. Differentiate top-down and bottom-up design.
4. What are the instruction set features useful for embedded programming?
5. Draw the bit format of CPSR.
6. How is ARM processor different from other processor?
7. Name the pipeline stages of ARM7.
8. List the functions of ARM processor in Supervisor mode.
9. Compare I/O mapped I/O and memory-mapped I/O.
10. Mention the functional or non-functional Requirements of embedded system design.
11. What is exception?
12. What is TLB?
13. What is the need for MMU?
14. What do you mean by hit and miss?
15. Name the types of cache access methods.
16. What are the parameters used to evaluate the CPU performance?
17. Identify the CMOS power characteristics.
18. List the types of power management features provided by CPUs.
Part-B
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With neat sketch explain in detail the operations of ARM processor.

Explain about the embedded system design process with suitable diagrams.
With neat sketch explain the various form of memory is present in a system.
i) Discuss in detail about the Performance of CPU.
(5)
ii) Discuss in detail about the CPU Power Consumption.
(5)
5. i) Discuss about the complex systems and microprocessors.
(5)
ii) Describe the following in brief: supervisor mode, trap and coprocessor.(5)
6. i) What are instruction set preliminaries?
(4)
ii) With neat sketch discuss in detail about the I/O programming.
(6)

All the Best

Note:
Question Pattern 10 --2 Marks and 3 --10 Marks (either or choice)
Dont skip any questions, questions are shuffled.