CSE - 4052410 - COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE - CA - STUDY MATERIALS

 

 

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CA Important Questions 

Unit-1

1. Various addressing modes

2.Microprogrammed control unit

3.Shift micro operators and 4 bit combinational circuit shifter

4. Structure of control unit

Unit-2

1. Strobe control data transfer

2.DMA controller and data transfer

3. Source initiated and destination initiated hand shaking data transfer 4.Comminication between CPU and IOP occurs

Unit-3

1.Secondary memories

2. Paged memory system in virtual memory

3. Memory map address

4. Memory management hardware

Unit-4

1.Block diagram of 8086

2. Vector processing

3.Flow chart for four segment CPU pipelining

4.SIMD array processor

Unit-5

1.NUMA Organisation

2.Multi Core organization

3. Vector Computation

4. Organisation of a symmetric multiprocessor

CSE - 4052410 - IMPORTANT QUESTION BANK 3 MARKS 14 MARKS

 UNIT – I

3 marks

Define RTL.

What is micro-operation? What are the types of micro-operations?

List the various addressing modes techniques.

Define control unit and discuss about the functions of control unit.

7 or 14 marks

What is bus and explain the bus transfer with a neat block diagram

Explain 4-bit arithmetic circuit

Explain in detail about functioning of Control Unit with block diagram

Explain Binary Adder- Subtractor.

Explain CISC and RISC Architecture with block diagram.

UNIT – II

3 marks

Define I/O interface and explain various I/O commands

What is vectored and non-vectored interrupt

Draw the block diagram of DMA Controller

Define DMA. Explain the two modes of DMA transfer.

Discuss about modem and modes of transmission.

7 or 14 marks

Explain strobe-controlled data transfer in detail.

Explain DMA transfer with block diagram

Explain hand shaking data transfer.

Define Input-Output processor? Draw block diagram of Computer with I/O processor.

Explain CPU-IOP Communication.

UNIT – III

3 marks

Explain about ROM chips with diagram.

Explain cache memory and hit ratio?

Discuss about characteristics of Memory Hierarchy Design

Explain about virtual address and define address space.

7 or 14 marks

Explain about Magnetic Disk with diagram

Explain any two mapping technique with diagram.

Explain in detail about memory table in a paged system with diagram.

Explain Optical Disk in detail

Define Segmentation and Explain Segmentation hardware with block diagram.

UNIT – IV

3 marks

Describe flag register and list out few flag register. 

Explain pipelining and list its types.

Discuss SIMD array processor

Discuss about general purpose register of 8086 architecture.

Define array processor and mention the two types.

7 or 14 marks

Explain 8086 architecture with neat diagram.

Explain 4 segment pipeline with a neat sketch..

Explain Execution Unit in 8086 architecture.

Explain the various types of parallel processor organisation.

UNIT – V

3 marks

Difference between process and thread.

Define NUMA and Vector.

7 or 14 marks

What is cluster? Explain the cluster configuration with block diagram.

Explain about CC-NUMA Operation.

Explain Intel x86  multicore organization.