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Supplementary Examinations, Feb/Mar 2011 ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE Question Paper
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1. (a) Find the die yield for dies that are 1cm on a side and 0.7 on a side assuming
a defect density of 0.6 per cm2.
(b) Give a brief note on significance of parallelism. [8+8]
2. (a) What are the reasons for emergence of general purpose registers?
(b) Distinguish between little endian and big endian format? [8+8]
3. What are the limitations of simple pipelining? Discuss the solutions for the same.
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4. Write notes on the following:
(a) loop unrolling
(b) Conditional ot predicated instructions [8+8]
5. (a) What do you mean by write buffer saturation? What is the solution for this?
(b) Explain about set associative cache? What are its disadvantages? [8+8]
6. (a) Explain multiprogramming and OS workload.
(b) When do you say a memory system is coherent. Explain? [8+8]
7. (a) Give the classification of the communication link bus. Which function limits
the maximum buses speed?
(b) What are mezzanine buses? Give the bus design decision. [8+8]
8. (a) Write short notes on:
i. Fibre optic Components
ii. Fibre Optic Cables
iii. Wavelength division multiplexing.