EC2303 Computer Architecture And Organisation - Nov / Dec 2013 Important Questions

[nesan]

Anna University
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
Fifth Semester
EC2303 Computer Architecture And Organisation
Nov / Dec 2013 Important Questions
Regulation 2008

UNIT 1

1. Evolution of Computer.
2. VLSI .
3. CPU Organization.
4. Floating Point Numbers .
5. Instruction Types.
6. Addressing modes.

UNIT 2

1. Combinational and Sequential ALU.
2. Carry look ahead adder.
3. Robertson algorithm, booth’s algorithm and non- restoring division algorithm .
4. Pipeline Processing
5. Modified booth’s Algorithm .

UNIT 3

1. Hardwired Control .
2.Microprogrammed Control .
3. Superscalar Processing.
4. Nano Programming.

UNIT 4

1. Random Access Memory.
2. Serial - Access Memory .
3. Optical Memory.
4. Cache & Virtual Memory.
5. Memory Allocation .

UNIT 5

1. Bus arbitration.
2. DMA .
3. PCI interrupts .
4. pipeline interrupts.
5. RISC and CISC processors.
6. Superscalar and vector processor.

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