University of Mumbai 2003 B.E Electronics & Tele-Communication Engineering COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND ORGANIZATION ( ) - Question Paper

N.B.:
(1) Solve any 3 ques. from every part.

part I
1. provide the architecture of general purpose computer and discuss its one operation. (18)

2. discuss computers system design with reference to-
(a) Gate level design. b) Processor level design. C) Register level design. (16)
(d) Fixed point arithmetic.

3. (a) provide the Booth Algorithm for multiplication. (8)
(b) discuss floating point ALU (8)

4. (a) discuss CPU organization and operation, discuss it wit reference to general registers, (8)
Instruction types, formats and addressing.
(b) Compare and contrast Risc and Cisc computers. (8)

5. (a) Compare and contrast hardwired and micro-programmed control unit. (8)
(b) provide the Design of a typical CPU control Unit (8)
part II

6. (a) discuss the organization of multilevel memory system in computer. (10)
Explain the operation of virtual memory
(b) Compare and contrast magnetic disk and optical memory. (8)

7. (a) provide the steps for the design of cache memory. (8)
(b) discuss the different cache kinds and compare 3 performances. (8)

8. (a) What is bus arbitration. discuss any 2 techniques of bus arbitration. (8)
(b) discuss different I/O control methods. (8)

9. (a) discuss IOP and CPU interaction. (8)
(b) discuss micro programmed control with suitable block diagram, (8)

10. (a) Compare and contrast co-processor and pipeline processor. (6)
(b) provide the steps for the design of the RAM. (6)
(c) Write note on; MIMD Computer. (4)

Earning:   Approval pending.