MU Computer Engineering (Semester 6)
Advanced Microprocessor
December 2014
Total marks: --
Total time: --
INSTRUCTIONS
(1) Assume appropriate data and state your reasons
(2) Marks are given to the right of every question
(3) Draw neat diagrams wherever necessary


Solve any four:
1 (a) Explain the integer pipeline stages for Pentium processor.
5 M
1 (b) What is parallelism? Justify the need of parallelism by giving example.
5 M
1 (c) State the bus cycles of 80386 DX processor.
5 M
1 (d) Draw the flag register of 80386 DX processor and explain.
5 M
1 (e) What is micro architecture? Explain by giving example.
5 M

2 (a) Explain the principle of designing pipelined processor.
10 M
2 (b) Explain the protection mechanism incorporated in 80386 DX processor.
10 M

3 (a) Draw the architecture of Intel P5 processor and explain.
10 M
3 (b) Explain branch prediction mechanism for pentium processor.
10 M

4 (a) Different between pentium processor versions, Pentium; Pentium pro; Pentium P6.
10 M
4 (b) Draw the Sum-SPARC architecture and explain.
10 M

5 (a) Discuss 1A-64 architecture in detail.
10 M
5 (b) Explain the floating point pipeline stages.
10 M

6 (a) Explain the addressing modes of 80386 DX processor in detail.
10 M
6 (b) Explain Systolic architecture in detail.
10 M

Write short notes on:
7 (a) PCI Bus.
5 M
7 (b) Memory Management.
5 M
7 (c) Cache Memory.
5 M
7 (d) USB Bus.
5 M



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