Calicut University 2011-4th Sem B.Tech Electronics and Communications Engineering ec09 405-computer organization and architecture - Question Paper

PART A
(5x2 Marks=10 Marks)

1.What are the 3 levels at which the design of a computer can be carried out?

2.What are bench marks?

3.State kerr effect?

4.What is a computer network?State any 2 of its advantages.

5.What is an interrupt?

PART B
(4x5 Marks=20 Marks)


6.With flowchart,explain an iterative design process

7.Explain the steps involved in the program execution

8.With the conceptual model diagram,explain the random access memory.

9.With timing diagram,explain the synchronous data transfer.

10.Explain the 4 broad groups of computers provided by Flynne's classification.

11.Write a note on Push and Pop operation in a stack

PART C
(4x10 Marks=40 Marks)

12. (i)With the block diagram,explain the processor memory communication with and without a cache memory. (5)

(ii)With flow chart and programming considerations,explain the cpu operation. (5)

(or)

13.Explain in detail about

(i) Combinational ALU and (ii) Sequential ALU (10)

14.Discuss in detail about the common memory hierarchies with two,three and 4 levels (10)

(or)

15.Discuss in detail about Assosiative and Set associative addressing modes (10)

16.Explain the subsequent interconnection structures and compare them in terms of number of edges, maximum node degree and maximum internode distance:
(i)Linear(ii)Mesh(iii)Ring(iv)Star(v)Hypercube (10)

(or)

17.Discuss in detail about the Direct Memory Access (DMA) and interrupts.(10)

18.Draw the functional block diagram of 8085 and discuss the function of every of its blocks.(10)

(or)

19.Discuss in detail about
(i)Memory Mapped I/O
(ii)I/O Mapped I/O (10)

Earning:   Approval pending.