SWARNAND HRA

INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

(Aproved by AICTE, Affiliated to JNTU, Kakinada)

EXAM SECTION - Question Bank Branch / Department: CSE & IT Subject: Microprocessors and Interfacing

SEETHARAMPURAM, NARSAPUR - 534280. W.G.DT.,

Year -Sem-Class

III/I CSE & IT

MID: I

Name of the Faculty: Sri Padmini.kDate: -0 -2010

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UNIT 5
1. (a) Discuss in detail about the interrupt structure of 8086. (10) (b) Describe the interrupt vector table of Intel processer. (10) 2. (a) Differential between initialization command words and operation command words of 8259. (10) (b) Discuss about the interrupt priority schemes used in 8259. (10) 3. (a) what is the difference between masked and un-masked interrupts? Give some examples? (10) (b) Describe bout some important features of a 8259 interrupt controller. (10)

4. (a) Distinguish between master and slave mode operation of 8259 (10) (b) Describe the response of 8086 to the interrupt coming on INTR pin. (10) 5. Explain the following terms in relation 8259 (20) (a) EOI (b) Cascading (c) Polling (d) Buffered mode (e) Edge and level triggered mode (f) Automatic rotation (g) Specific rotation (h) Special mast mode 6. (a) List out the advantages of using 8259?. (10) (b) Describe the conditions that cause the 8086 to perform each of the following types of interrupts: Type-0, Type-1, Type-2, Type-3 & Type-4. (10) 7. (a) Discuss the sequence of operations performed in the Interrupt acknowledge cycle. (10) (b) What is the difference between RET & IRET? Discuss the result if RET instruction is placed at the end of the interrupt service routine. (10)

UNIT 6
1. (a)discuss the serial data transmission standards and their specifications. (10) (b) Draw and explain the block diagram of 8251. (10) 2. (a) Discuss the asynchronous and synchronous data transfer schemes. (10) (b) Explain the interfacing of 8251 with 8086 with necessary circuit diagm. (10) 3. (a) Discuss the type of serial communication. (10) (b) What is the status word of 8251A? Explain how 8086 processor will read the status word from 8251. (10) 4. (a) What do you mean by I/O mapped I/O? Draw the interfacing of 8251 with 8086 in I/O mapped I/O mode. (10) (b) Describe the function of the DSR,DTR,RTS,CTS,TXD, and RXD exchanged between a terminal and a modern. (10)

5. (a) Why is synchronous serial data communication much more efficient that synchronous communication? (10) (b) Explain about the RS-232c serial data transfer pins and handshakes (10) 6. (a) Give the mode word format for synchronous communication when using 8251A USART for communication and explain. (10) (b) Explain the command word format of 8251A for synchronous operation. (10)

UNIT 7
1. (a) what is meant by paging? Explain its advantage and disadvantages. (10) (b) Explain the procedure of converting linear address into physical addres.(10) 2. (a) explains the real mode and protected mode operations 80386 microprocessor. (10) (b) Compare RISC and CISC processors. (10)

3. (a) Explain the architecture of the Pentium processor. (10) (b) Differentiate RISC and CISC processors. (10) 4. (a)List and explain the new Pentium instructions. (10) (b) Explain the memory system of the Pentium processor. (10)

UNIT 8
1. (a) How does 8051 differentiate between the external & internal program memory. (10) (b) Explain the alternate functions of Port-0, Port-2 & Port-3. (10)

2. (a) Discuss the advantages of micro controller based system over microprocessor based systems. (10) (b) Describe the following registers of 8051 (10) i. A ii. B iii. SP iv. DPTR

3. (a) Explain various operations modes of Timer-1& Timer-0 . (10) (b) Describe the Timer control (TCON) and Timer mode control (TMOD) registers of 8051A. (10) 4. (a)Discuss various addressing modes of 8051. (10) (b) Explain in detail about serial sport operation in 8051 microcontroller (10) 5. Draw the architectural diagram of 8051 microprocessor and explain about each block. (20) 6. (a) Explain the interrupt structure of the 8051 microcontroller. (10) (b) Explain different addressing modes of 8051 microcontroller with suitable examples. (10)