ADVANCED MICROPROCESSOR (AMP) MAY 2011 COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMESTER 6

ADVANCED MICROPROCESSOR (AMP) MAY 2011 COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMESTER 6

                                                              (3 Hours)                                    [Total Marks: -100]

1. (a) Enlist the instruction pairing rules of 'U' and 'V' pipeline in pentium. [5 Marks]
    (b) Write short note on: V-86 mode of operation. [5 Marks]
    (c) State the features of Intel Itanium processor. [5 Marks]
    (d) Explain the data types supported by SPARC architecture. [5 Marks]
 
2. (a) Explain with diagram arithmatic pipeline design for 8 bit multiplication. [10 Marks]
    (b) What are the types of instructions hazards? Explain in detail. [10 Marks]

3. (a) Draw protected mode address translation mechanism in 80386DX with neat flow diagram.
         Explain segment translation in detail. [10 Marks] 
    (b) State the use of following X86 flags: RF, TF, VM, NT, IOPL. [5 Marks]
    (c) What is segment descriptor? Draw and explain the structure. [5 Marks]

4. (a) Explain how the flushing of pipeline problem is minimized in pentium architecture. [10 Marks]
    (b) Write short note on the following: Branch Prediction Logic. [5 Marks]
    (c) Explain different stages of floating point pipeline of pentium processor. [5 Marks]

5. (a) List the important features of pentium-II processor. Differentiate between pentium-II and
         pentium-III. [10 Marks]
    (b) Write short note on Intel's Net burst micro architecture. [5 Marks]
    (c) Write the features of pentium-IV. [5 Marks]

6. (a) Explain the architecture of Super SPARC microprocessor with help of neat block
        diagram. [10 Marks] 
    (b) Draw and explain various instruction formats of SPARC processor. [10 Marks]

7. Write short note on the following:- [20 Marks]
     A) USB    B) SCSI    C) ISA    D) EISA