Subject Code: G0502/R13

M. Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, March, 2014

COMPUTER ORGANIZATION/
COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND ARCHITECHTURE
(Common to CS and CS&E)
Time: 3 Hours Max Marks: 60
Answer any FIVE questions
All questions carry EQUAL marks
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1. a) Briefly distinguish between textual data, pictorial data, audio& video data. And also
explain the importance of ASCII code.
b) Explain the procedure to multiply Two N bit numbers using hardware and booth algorithm.
[4+8]
2. a) Simplify the following Boolean function F together with the dont care conditionsd
in sum-of-product forms and product-of-sums form F(w,x,y,z)=(0,1,2,3,7,8,10)
d(w,x,y,z)= (5,6,11,15) [6+6]
b) What is signed magnitude data? Explain the hardware implementation of signed magnitude
addition and subtraction.

3. a) Design BCD adder for 4-bit binary numbers. [6+6]

b) What is fixed point representation of integers? Explain different ways to represent signed
integers.

4. a) what is decoder? Design 2 to 4-line decoder with NAND gates.

b) What is shift register? Explain the general capabilities of shift registers. [6+6]

5. a) what is Segment? Explain segmented page mapping in memory management hardware.

b) Explain with block diagram the Associative Memory. [6+6]

6. What is Cache memory? Explain different types of mappings from main memory to cache
memory. 12

7. a) briefly explain various peripheral devices used in computer system.

b) What is Asynchronous data transfer? Explain different methods used for asynchronous
data transfer. [6+6]

8.Write Short notes on the following

a) Direct Memory Access
b) I/O Processor
c) Daisy Chain priority interrupts. [4+4+4+]
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