Advanced Microprocessor - December 2014

MU Computer Engineering (Semester 6)

Total marks: --
Total time: -- INSTRUCTIONS
(1) Assume appropriate data and state your reasons
(2) Marks are given to the right of every question
(3) Draw neat diagrams wherever necessary

Solve any four:

1 (b) What is parallelism? Justify the need of parallelism by giving example. 5 marks

1 (c) State the bus cycles of 80386 DX processor. 5 marks

1 (d) Draw the flag register of 80386 DX processor and explain. 5 marks

1 (e) What is micro architecture? Explain by giving example. 5 marks

2 (a) Explain the principle of designing pipelined processor. 5 marks

2 (b) Explain the protection mechanism incorporated in 80386 DX processor. 5 marks

3 (a) Draw the architecture of Intel P5 processor and explain. 5 marks

3 (b) Explain branch prediction mechanism for pentium processor. 5 marks

4 (a) Different between pentium processor versions, Pentium; Pentium pro; Pentium P6. 5 marks

4 (b) Draw the Sum-SPARC architecture and explain. 5 marks

5 (a) Discuss 1A-64 architecture in detail. 5 marks

5 (b) Explain the floating point pipeline stages. 5 marks

6 (a) Explain the addressing modes of 80386 DX processor in detail. 5 marks

6 (b) Explain Systolic architecture in detail. 5 marks

Write short notes on:

7 (b) Memory Management. 5 marks

7 (c) Cache Memory. 5 marks

7 (d) USB Bus. 5 marks