ADVANCED MICROPROCESSOR (AMP) DECEMBER 2011 COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMESTER 6
| 1. (a) | Explain how flushing of pipeline problem is minimized in Pentium Architecture. | 10 |
| (b) | Draw protected mode address translation mechanism of 80386 DX with a neat | 10 |
| diagram and explain the segment translation in detail. | ||
2. (a) | Explain ltanium processor with respect to instruction format, core pipeline stages | 10 |
| and its functionality in detail. | ||
| (b) | Explain the various data types supported by SPARC. | 10 |
3. (a) | Explain the cache organisation of Pentium. | 10 |
| (b) | State features of PCI bus. Draw and explain work station based on PCI bus. | 10 |
4. (a) | Differentiate between Pentium and Pentium Pro-processors with respect to | 10 |
| generation, overlocking features, core pipeline stages, address bits, main memory | ||
| size. | ||
| (b) | Draw and explain the state transition diagram for Pentium processor's bus cycle. | 10 |
5. (a) | Explain the architecture of Super SPARC with the help of a neat diagram. | 10 |
| (b) | Explain instruction pairing rules of Pentium. Also explain the "Instruction Issue" | 10 |
| algorithm in detail. | ||
6. (a) | Explain ISA bus features in detail. | 10 |
| (b) | Explain floating point pipeline stages Pentium processor. | 10 |
7. | Write short notes on the following :- | 20 |
| (a) Intel Net Brust Microarchitecture | ||
| (b) Structure of segment descriptor | ||
| (c) SCSI | ||
| (d) USB. |
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