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MARTHANDAM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND

TECHNOLOGYMODEL EXAM III - 2016

Semester VI

ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

CS60! COM"UTER ARCHITECTURE

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1. List any four of the eight great ideas invented by

computer architects.

2. Distinguish Pipelining from Parallelism.3. How overflow occur in subtraction .

!. "hat do you mean by sub#word parallelism$. "hat are %#&ype instructions

'. "hat is a branch prediction buffet(). Differentiate between *trong scaling and "ea+ scaling.,. -ompare /0 and N/0 multiprocessors.

. "hat is the need to implement memory as ahierarchy

1. Point out how D/0 can improve 45 speed.

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11. 6a7 Discuss about the8 various techni9ues torepresent instructions in a computer system 61'7

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6b7"hat is the need for addressing in a computer system :;plain the different addressing modes with

suitable e;amples. 61'7 

12. 6a7:;plain the se9uential version of  

multiplication algorithm and its hardware. 61'7

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6b7 i7 :;plain how floating point addition is carried out

in a computer system.  ii7 :-&5% systems. 61'7

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6b7 "hat is Hardware multithreading -ompare and

contrast ?ine grained /ulti#&hreading and -oarse

grained /ulti#&hreading8 61'7

1$. 6a7 6i7 :;plain mapping functions in cache memory to

determine how memory bloc+s are placed in -ache.

6ii7 :;plain in detail about the @us 0rbitration techni9ues in

D/0. 6,7 61'75r 

6b7 "hat is virtual memory :;plain the stepsinvolved( in virtual memory address translation8 61'7.