Code No: RR420204 RR Set No.

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IV B.Tech II Semester Supplimentry Examinations,May 2010
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Common to Electronics And Communication Engineering, Electrical And
Electronics Engineering
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks

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1. Explain the need of special architecture for pipelining and parallelism. [16]

2. (a) Explain the three types of cores such as hard, soft and firm cores.

.
(b) Show the correspondence of the three types of cores with Gazkis Y-chart.

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[8+8]

3. (a) What is an embedded system? Why is it so hard to define?

(b) List the applications of embedded systems.
or [8+8]

4. Describe each tool that has enabled the elevation of software design and hardware
design to higher abstraction levels. [16]

5. Explain in detail about RT-level combinational components used in embedded sys-

tems.
uW
(a) Multiplexer
(b) n-bit adder. [8+8]

6. Describe why a general-purpose processor would cost less than a single-purpose

processor you design yourself. [16]

7. (a) Explain the consumer-producer problem.

(b) Write a correct solution to the consumer-producer problem using mutex?
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[8+8]

8. (a) Describe a system as a state machine.

(b) Compare state machine and sequential program models. [8+8]
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Code No: RR420204 RR Set No. 4
IV B.Tech II Semester Supplimentry Examinations,May 2010
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Common to Electronics And Communication Engineering, Electrical And
Electronics Engineering
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks

in
?????

1. Describe why a general-purpose processor would cost less than a single-purpose

processor you design yourself. [16]

.
2. Explain in detail about RT-level combinational components used in embedded sys-

ld
tems.

(a) Multiplexer
(b) n-bit adder. or [8+8]

3. Explain the need of special architecture for pipelining and parallelism. [16]

4. (a) Explain the consumer-producer problem.

(b) Write a correct solution to the consumer-producer problem using mutex?
[8+8]
uW
5. (a) What is an embedded system? Why is it so hard to define?
(b) List the applications of embedded systems. [8+8]

6. (a) Explain the three types of cores such as hard, soft and firm cores.
(b) Show the correspondence of the three types of cores with Gazkis Y-chart.
[8+8]

7. Describe each tool that has enabled the elevation of software design and hardware
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design to higher abstraction levels. [16]

8. (a) Describe a system as a state machine.

(b) Compare state machine and sequential program models. [8+8]
Aj

?????

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Code No: RR420204 RR Set No. 1
IV B.Tech II Semester Supplimentry Examinations,May 2010
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Common to Electronics And Communication Engineering, Electrical And
Electronics Engineering
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks

in
?????

1. (a) Explain the consumer-producer problem.

(b) Write a correct solution to the consumer-producer problem using mutex?

.
[8+8]

ld
2. (a) What is an embedded system? Why is it so hard to define?
(b) List the applications of embedded systems. [8+8]

3. Explain the need of special architecture for pipelining and parallelism.

or [16]

4. (a) Explain the three types of cores such as hard, soft and firm cores.
(b) Show the correspondence of the three types of cores with Gazkis Y-chart.
[8+8]

5. Explain in detail about RT-level combinational components used in embedded sys-

uW
tems.

(a) Multiplexer
(b) n-bit adder. [8+8]

6. (a) Describe a system as a state machine.

(b) Compare state machine and sequential program models. [8+8]

7. Describe why a general-purpose processor would cost less than a single-purpose

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processor you design yourself. [16]

8. Describe each tool that has enabled the elevation of software design and hardware
design to higher abstraction levels. [16]
Aj

?????

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Code No: RR420204 RR Set No. 3
IV B.Tech II Semester Supplimentry Examinations,May 2010
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Common to Electronics And Communication Engineering, Electrical And
Electronics Engineering
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks

in
?????

1. (a) Describe a system as a state machine.

(b) Compare state machine and sequential program models. [8+8]

.
2. (a) What is an embedded system? Why is it so hard to define?

ld
(b) List the applications of embedded systems. [8+8]

3. (a) Explain the consumer-producer problem.

(b) Write a correct solution to the consumer-producer problem using mutex?
or [8+8]

4. Explain in detail about RT-level combinational components used in embedded sys-

tems.

(a) Multiplexer
uW
(b) n-bit adder. [8+8]

5. Describe each tool that has enabled the elevation of software design and hardware
design to higher abstraction levels. [16]

6. Describe why a general-purpose processor would cost less than a single-purpose

processor you design yourself. [16]

7. Explain the need of special architecture for pipelining and parallelism. [16]
nt

8. (a) Explain the three types of cores such as hard, soft and firm cores.
(b) Show the correspondence of the three types of cores with Gazkis Y-chart.
[8+8]
Aj

?????