16-01-2014, 12:23 PM
1st Sessional Examination EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN (IC-403-E)
Q1. a) What is microcontroller? Compare microcontroller with microprocessor
with examples.
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b) With the help of block diagram explain the features of 8051
microcontroller.
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Q2. a) What is an embedded system? List & define three main characteristics of
embedded systems that distinguish such systems from other computing
systems.
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b) Explain CISC and RISC architecture microcontrollers.
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c) Explain program memory consideration of PIC.
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Q3. a) Write a program in 8051 using interupt to generate 10KHz frequency on
P1.5
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b) Explain the difference between Harvard and Princeton architecture. 10
Q4. A) Discuss how instruction pipelining is implemented in PIC 16
microcontroller.
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b) Explain various addressing modes of PIC.
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Q5 a) What are PIC microcontrollers? Discuss the difference between PIC and
8051 microcontroller.
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b) Write a program in 8051 to add two 16-bit nos.
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Q6. a) Explain the block diagram of PIC microcontroller.
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b) Discuss meaning (with ex.), modes of addressing and status bits affected
by the following instructions:
incfsz, retfie, bsf, clrwdt, subwf.
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Q7 a) Discuss meaning (with ex.), modes of addressing and status bits affected
by the following instructions:
Cpl, DJNZ, SUBB, JNB, JNZ.
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b) Write a program in 8051 to rotate the LED left.
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Q8. Write short notes on :
a) Intel hex format object file
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b) Interpreters, Simulators, Debuggers, emulator, compiler, assembler (any four )