Regular Arrear Examination - December 2013

Course : ITE305 - Embedded Systems

Time : Three Hours Max.Marks:100

PART A (8 X 5 = 40 Marks)
Answer ALL Questions

1. Describe the various architectural blocks present in a Microcontroller.

2. Classify and Implement the Cache Misses in a two- level Cache system.

3. Discuss the software tools used for designing an Embedded system.

4. Explain the two major styles of Inter process communication.

5. Specify the five basic global power states of ACPI.

6. Describe the OSI layers from lowest to highest level of abstraction.

7. Enumerate the encapsulation of IP packets in Packet Format.

8. Generalize a typical Microcontroller from a Microprocessor.

PART B (6 X 10 = 60 Marks)
Answer any SIX Questions
9. Construct a UML sequence diagram that shows a four-cycle handshake between a bus
master and a device.
10. Interpret the two ways of mechanism in which interrupts can be generalized to handle
multiple devices.

11. a) Discuss with an example the role of assembling and linking in compilation process. [5]
b) Compile the arithmetic expression a* b + 5*(c-d) to produce the resultant assembly [5]
code.

12. For the processes shown below schedule the processes using an RMS policy. Also
compute the CPU utilization in which time slot starts at t = 0
Process Execution Time Period
P1 12 10
P2 10 5
P3 10 15

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13. Describe the static and dynamic energy efficiency features of power PC603 Chip.

14. Explore the CAN data frame format and determine the error frame.

15. Illustrate the Internet appliance Javacam operates as a Java applet.

16. Explain the conditional execution of statements in ARM for the following of high level
code. Show the corresponding assembly level code for ARM.
(Assume all variables are available in registers).

If ( a < b )
{
x = 5;
y = c + d;
}
else
x = c d;

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