Code No-NR- 310201

III-B.Tech. I-Semester Supplementary Examinations, May/June-2004

COMPUTER ORGANIZATION
Set No. 4
(common to EEE, ECE, EIE and ET)

Time: 3 Hours
Max. Marks: 80

Answer any FIVE questions

All questions carry equal marks

1. Discuss about

(a) Weighted codes
(b) Self-complementing codes
(c) Cyclic codes.

2. Describe all optional PCI signal lines with designation and type.

3. Discuss various key design issues of an instruction format.

4. (a) List and describe all arithmetic instructions of MIPS R-Series processors.

(b) Discuss how R3000 pipeline can be modified to improve performance.

5. Discuss about address translation with segmentation and paging in the Intel Pentium.

6. (a) Discuss the changes in memory and register for an interrupt in interrupt driven I/O.

(b) Differentiate between programmed I/O and interrupt driven I/O.

(c) Explain about simple interrupt processing with the hep of a flow chart.

7. (a) Discuss about Wilke's microprogrammed control unit.

(b) Explain the organization of control memory.

8. Discuss the influence of pipelining on instructions set design.