SKR Engineering College 2007 B.E Information Technology CS1251-COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE - Question Paper

SKR ENGINEERING COLLEGE
DEPARTMENT OF info TECHNOLOGY

CS1251-COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

MODEL examination

MAXIMUM MARKS: 100 TIME DURATION: three Hrs

ans all the ques.

Part-A (2*10=20)

1.Define Microinstruction. provide an example
2.What is meant by super scalar processor?
3.Define Memory access time.
4.What is a Rambus Memory?
5.Define Fast Page mode.
6.What is Locality of Reference? elaborate its kinds
7.Define Interrupt Latency.
8.What are Trace and Breakpoints?
9.What is Privilege Exception?
10.What is Cycle Stealing?
Part-B (5*16=80)

1.With necessary diagrams discuss in detail about Data Hazards.
2.Explain the virtual memory address translation and TLB with necessary diagram.
3.Expalin how DMA transfer is accomplished with a neat diagram.
4.Expalin the different mapping functions used for mapping main memory blocks into
Cache memory.
5 Write short notes on,
i)PCI
ii)SCSI

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Earning:   Approval pending.