Time Allowed: 3 Hours Full Marks: 70: Answer To Question No.1 Is Compulsory and Answer Any Five Questions From The Rest
Time Allowed: 3 Hours Full Marks: 70: Answer To Question No.1 Is Compulsory and Answer Any Five Questions From The Rest
Time Allowed: 3 Hours Full Marks: 70: Answer To Question No.1 Is Compulsory and Answer Any Five Questions From The Rest
March 2021
Answer to Question No.1 is compulsory and Answer any five questions from the rest.
1. A. Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives (any ten): 1x10
iii) The largest floating point number that can be represented by 8 bit is (a) 01111111
(b) 11111111 (c) 01101111 (d) 01111110.
iv) If n is number of bits in exponent, the bias number can be calculated as (a) 2 n-1 (b) 2n
(c) 2n-1 (d) 2n-1-1.
v) In Booth’s algorithm, if the multiplier has n bits then the multiplicand should have (a) 1 bit
(b) n bits (c) n+1 bits (d) 2n bits.
vi) k-way set associative means (a) k blocks are present in a set (b) k sets are present in a
block (c) k sets are present in the cache (d) none of these.
vii) The three main components of a digital computer system are (a) Memory, IO, DMA
(b) ALU, CPU, Memory (c) CU, ALU, Register (d) CPU, Memory, IO.
viii) The second generation of computer used (a) transistors (b) IC (c) vacuum tube (d) LSI.
ix) Processors of all computers, whether micro, mini or mainframe must have (a) ALU
(b) Primary storage (c) Control Unit (d) all of these.
x) In Which addressing mode is operand specified in the instruction itself? (a) Register mode
(b) Immediate mode (c) Direct Address mode (d) Index Addressing mode.
xi) The instruction LOAD is a (a) zero-address instruction (b) one-address instruction (c) two-
address instruction (d) three-address instruction.
xii) The number of fetch operation to execute instruction in immediate mode is (a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2
(d) none of these.
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2. Write short notes on the followings (any two): 5+5
a) IO processor
b) Vector Processing
c) Memory Interleaving
d) Loop Buffer
4. What do you mean by pipeline hazards/conflicts? Discuss the different types of hazards being observed
and also explain the possible solutions. 2+8
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