Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum

Post Graduate Study Centre

M. Tech. VLSI & Embedded System
Advanced Embedded Systems (10EC118)

MIDSEM Exam Question Paper

Duration: 1.5Hrs Max. Marks: 50

2 Marks Questions

1. A digital multi meter is an example of an embedded system for

(a) Data communication (b) Monitoring
(c) Control (d) All of these (e) None of these

2.Which of the following processor architecture supports easier instruction

pipelining?
(a) Harvard (b) Von Neumann
(c) Both of them (d) None of these

3. Dynamic RAM stores data in the form of voltage. State True or False
(a) True (b) False

4. Which of the following is (are) examples for Application Specific Instruction set
Processor(s)
(a) Intel Centrino (b) Atmel Automotive AVR
(c) AMD Turion (d) Microchip CAN PIC
(e) All of these (f) both (b) and (d)

5. Which of the following is true about optocoup1ers

(a) Optocoup1er acts as an input device only
(b) Optocoup1er acts as an output device only
(c) Optocoupler can be used in both input and output circuitry
(d) None of these

6. In the ZigBee network, which of the following ZigBee entity stores the
information about the network?
(a) ZigBee Coordinator (b) ZigBee Router
(c) ZigBee Reduced Function Device (d) All of them

7. Response is a measure of
(a) Quickness of the system (c) Both
(b) How fast the system tracks changes in Input (d) None of these

8. Throughput of an embedded system is a measure of

(a) The efficiency of the system (c) Both
(b) The output over a stated period of time (d) None of these

9. Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) defines
the reliability of an embedded system. State True or False
 (a) True (b) False

10. Which of the following are the three measures of information security in
embedded systems?
(a) Confidentiality, secrecy, integrity
(b) Confidentiality, integrity, availability
(c) Confidentiality, transparency, availability
(d) Integrity, transparency, availability

11. Which of the following is a multiprocessor architecture?

(a) SIMD (b) MIMD (c) VLIW (d) All
(e) (a) and (b) (f) (b)and(c)

12. Which of the following model is best suited for modeling a reactive embedded
system?
(a) Finite State Machine (FSM) (b) DFG (c) Control DFG
(d) Object Oriented Model

13. Which of the following is (are) trade-offs in hardware software partitioning?

(a) Processing speed (b) Memory requirement (c) Cost
(d) All of these (e) None of these

4 Marks Questions

14. Which of the following is (are) an intended purpose(s) of embedded

systems?
(a) Data collection (b) Data processing (c) Data communication
(d) All of these (e) None of these

15. An integer variable with value 255 is stored in memory location at 0x8000.
The processor word length is 8 bits and the processor is a big endian
processor. The size of integer is considered as 4 bytes in the system. What is
the value held by the memory location 0x8000?
(a) 0xFF (b) 0x00 (c) 0x01 (d) None of these

16. Which is the optimal row-column configuration for a 24 key matrix

keyboard?
(a) 6 x 4 (b) 8 x 3 (c) 12 x 2 (d) 5 x 5

17. Which of the following is/are synchronous serial interface?

(a) I2C (b) SPI (c) UART (d) All of these (e) Only (a) and (b)

18. The Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) of an embedded product is 4

months and the Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) of the product is 2 weeks. What
is the availability of the product?
(a) 100% (b) 50% (c) 89% (d) 10%

19. Which of the following is a hardware description language?

(a) C (b) System C (c) VHDL (d) C++ (e) (b) and (c)