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B.Tech.(Sem. - 3'o)
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE (CS - 201)

Time : 03 Hours Maximum Marks : 60

Instruction to Candidates:
1) Section.A is Compulsory.
2) Attempt any Four questionsfrom Section- B
3) Attempt any Two questionsfrom Section- C.

Section- A
QI) ( 1 0x 2 : 2 0 )

a) Whatis theconceptof layersin architectural

design?

b) Whatdo you rneanby memoryhierarchy?

Brieflydiscuss.

c) Whatis instructionpipelining?

d) What is an I/O processor?Briefly discuss.

e) Briellyexplainan instruction
fornrat.

0 What is cachernemory?

g) What is a multiprocessor?
Explainthe term SIMD

h) Differentiatebetweencomputerarchitecture
andcomputerorganization.

i) What do you meanby interleavedmemory?

j) What is the role of shift registerin digitalCornputer?

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 Section- B
(4*5:20)

Q2) How pipeliningwouldimprovetheperformance

of cPU? Justifu.

for binarymultiplication.
Q3) DiscusstheBooth'sAlgorithm

Q4) CompareandContrastSuperpipelinedrnachineandSuperscalarmachines,

QS) What are Benchmarks? Give their

Discussvariouskinds of Benchmarks.
architecture
in cotnputer
significance

diagramof controller.
Q6) DiscussDMAr,vithhelpof schematic

Section- C
(2 x I0 - 20)

Q7) Explainthe variousAddressingmodesin detail.

QS) Write shorl note on the following.

(a) ParallelCornputing.
(b) DistributedComputrng.

(c) SerialandParallelintedace.
.

aud tnemory
Qg) (a) What is the differencebetrveenI/O mappedinput/or"rtput
mappedinput/ogtput.What are the advantagesatrd disadvantagesof
each?
(b) Softwareinterruptandhardwareinternrpt.
(c) PollingandInterrrqrtdrivenIiO.

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