Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University 2010 B.E Electronics & Communication Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Technology, COMPUTER ORGANISATION - Question Paper

part A

1. (a) explain in detail components which are generally used to design register level circuits.
(b) Write short notes on Description languages.
(c) The communication ranging from processor level components is generally asynchronous which outcome in simultaneous requests for an access to a provided device. State and discuss the different causes.

2. (a) Draw a flowchart for the non-restoring method of fixed- point binary division with example its working.
(b) Write a short note on Bit-sliced ALU.

3. (a) What is an overflow? How is it detected?
(b) How the addition is performed in computer? discuss basic binary adder then explain high speed addition.

4. (a) Design a hardwired control unit for the twos complement multiplier.
(b) discuss delay element method and sequence counter method of control unit design.

5. (a) define how instruction sequencing is done in digital computers.
(b) What was Wilkes original proposal for microprogrammed control unit design?
(c) Compare instruction level and microinstruction level instruction execution.

part B

6. (a) discuss the operation of static bipolar transistior RAM storage cell with the help of circuit diagram.
(b) discuss with examples different kinds of magnetic memory devices. Also discuss their merits and demerits.

7. (a) discuss virtual memory organisation.
(b) Write a short note on Cache memory.
(c) What is meant by Latency time and Seek time?

8. (a) What is need of Bus arbitration? discuss every in brief.
(b) Write short note on shared memory and distributed memory computer.

9. (a) discuss the concepts related to interrupts:
(i) Priority
(ii) Masking
(iii) Vectored Interrupts.
(b) Design IOP organisation.

10. Write short notes on any THREE:
(i) Pipelining.
(ii) Coprocessor
(iii) Risc processor
(iv) Cisc processor.

Earning:   Approval pending.