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This document contains questions about computer architecture and organization. It covers topics such as the stored program concept, basic computer components like the CPU and memory, addressing modes, instruction execution, control unit design including hardwired and microprogrammed control, and floating point representation and arithmetic. The questions test understanding of concepts like pipelining, parallelism, instruction execution, and the differences between RISC and CISC architectures.

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Coa 1&2

This document contains questions about computer architecture and organization. It covers topics such as the stored program concept, basic computer components like the CPU and memory, addressing modes, instruction execution, control unit design including hardwired and microprogrammed control, and floating point representation and arithmetic. The questions test understanding of concepts like pipelining, parallelism, instruction execution, and the differences between RISC and CISC architectures.

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Unit 1( 2Marks)

1. What is meant by the stored program concept?


2. What are the basic functional units of a computer?
3. What is the use of buffer register?
4. Define memory access time.
5. Write the differences between RISC and CISC.
6. What is meant by MAR and MDR?
7. What is an interrupt?
8. Why data bus is bidirectional in most microprocessors?
9. What do you mean by multiprogramming or multitasking?
10. Give the basic performance equation.
11. What are the limitations of assembly language?
12. What are the two techniques used to increase the clock rate R?
13. When performing signed division, the sign of the remainder should be the same as the
sign of the dividend. Why?
14. What is the information conveyed by addressing modes?
15. What are the different types of addressing modes available?
16. What is indirect addressing mode?
17. What is indexed addressing mode?
18. Define auto increment mode of addressing?
19. Define auto decrement mode of addressing?
20. What are condition code flags?
21. What is the use of assembler directive?
22. What is meant by straight – line sequencing?
23. What is stack?
24. Which data structure is best supported using indirect addressing mode?
25. What are the differences between Stack and Queue?
26. What is byte addressable memory?
27. What is big endian and Little endian format?
28. Define clock rate?
29. What is the function of ALU?
30. Draw the full adder circuit using two half adders and give the truth table.
31. Why floating point number is more difficult to represent and process than integer?
32. What are the two approaches used to reduce delay in adders?
33. What is a carry look-ahead adder?
34. Discuss the principle behind the Booth’s algorithm?
35. How can we speed up the multiplication process?
36. What is bit pair recoding? Give an example.
37. What are the two methods of achieving the 2’s complement?
38. What is the advantage of using Booth algorithm?
39. Write the algorithm for restoring division.
40. Write the algorithm for non restoring division.
41. Define IEEE floating point single and double precision standard.
42. When can you say that a number is normalized?
43. Explain about the special values in floating point numbers.
44. Write the Add/subtract rule for floating point numbers.
45. Write the multiply rule for floating point numbers.
46. What is the purpose of guard bits?
47. What are the ways to truncate the guard bits?
48. Define carry save addition (CSA) process.
49. What are generated and propagate function?
50. What is excess-127 format?
51. What is a ripple carry adder?
52. Draw the structure of 4-bit MSI ALU circuit block.
53. What are the various ways of representing signed integers in the system?
54. Give the booth’s recoding and bit pair recoding of the number 1000011100100101.

UNIT 2---2MARKS

SET-1
1.Explain MDR and MAR.
2) Name two special purpose registers.
3) Define datapath.
4) Describe the two control signals used for register transfer.
5) Define processor clock.
6) What is known as multiphase clocking?
7) Define MFC.
8) What is WMFC.
9) Define register file.
10) What is mean by branch instruction.
11) What are the two approaches used for generating the control signals in proper sequence?
12) What are the factors determine the control signals?
13) Explain hardwired control.
14) What are the features of the hardwired control.
15) What is microprogrammed control?
16) What is control word?
17) Define microroutine and microinstruction.
18) What is control store.
19) What is the drawback of assigning one bit position to each control signal?
20) Name some register output control signals.
21) What is vertical organization and horizontal organization?
22) Compare vertical organization and horizontal organization.
23) Explain bit-O-Ring technique.
24) Define emulation.
25) What is the drawback of microprogrammed control?

SET-2
1. What are the different types of control organizations?
2. What are the differences between the hardwired control organization and micro
programmed Control organization?
3. What is space diagram?
4. What is micro programmed control unit?
5. What is micro instruction?
6. What is micro program?
7. What are the differences between the main memory and control memory?
8. What is micro program sequencer?
9. What is meant by mapping process?
10. Give the micro instruction format.
11. What is hard wired logic?
12. What is micro programming?
13. What are the advantages and disadvantages of micro programming?
14.Differentiate Nanoprogramming and Microprogramming.
15.What are the advantages of Multiple Bus over single bus?
16.You are provided with a Hardwired control and Microprogrammed Control,which one
would you prefer?Justify your answer.
17.How are the required control signals determined in Hardwired control?
18.How are control signals generated in microprogrammed control?
19.Comment on the storage and latency in hardwired and microprogrammed control.
20. What is meant by Instruction set Processor?
21.What is the role of a Program Counter?
22.Why is prefetching technique often used?
23. Write the control sequence for execution of the instruction Add(R3), R1.
24. Write the control sequence for an unconditional branch instruction.
25. Write the various actions required to fetch a word from memory.
26. What are the limitations of super scalar device?
27. Define pipeline speedup.
28. Write down the control sequence for Move (R1), R2.
29. What is the WMFC step needed when reading from or writing to the main memory?
30. Define register file.
31. Define parallelism in microinstruction.
32. What are the types of microinstructions available?

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