Biju Patnaik University of Technology 2007 B.Tech Information Technology /COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND ORGANIZATION - Question Paper

1. ans the subsequent question:
a)Write the basic difference ranging from computer architecture and organisation ?

b)List down the difference ranging from shared memory and message passing computers.

c)What program features justifies the use of cache memory in a hierarchical memory system ?

d)Which register in CPU is responsible for sequencing the control of execution ?
Write its role when a branch instruction is encountered during execution .

e)What feature designate the 8085 is an 8-bit microprocessor ?

f)Differentiate ranging from page fault and cache miss.

g)What is th advantage of using cache memory ?

h)How the division can be performed without having any explicit divide instruction in the
instruction set of a computer system ?

i)What are the advantage and disadvantages of high level and assembly language program ?

2.a)Define the subsequent :
instruction cycle ,Memory cycle ,Interrupt cycle and Control memory.

b)Explain the role of subsequent registers in a computer
PC,MAR,MBR,GENERAL PURPOSE REGISTER ,SP,FLAG REGISTER

3.Explain the detailed organisation of CPU in a digital computer .Define
and differentiate ranging from instruction interpretation and instruction sequencing .

4.What is the difference ranging from memory access and memory cycle time?
How they are affected due to destructive and non-destructive readout?

5.Write the various kind of microinstruction formats and discuss how the degree of
parallelism can be improved for generating control signals.

6.What is a pipelined processor ?Develop a set of formula to calculate efficiency and
throughout of pipelined processor .What is th speedup gained due to pipelining ?

7.a)Explain with circuit layout for binary division in digital computer.

b)Illustrate Boot's multiplication algorithm with example .

8.Discuss the associative cache memory mapping with an example.

Earning:   Approval pending.