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IV B.Tech I Semester(R07)Regular Examinations, November/December 2010

ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
(Computer Science & Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE questions
All questions carry equal marks
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1. (a) Discuss about implementation technologies

(b) Explain the impact of time, volume and reporting performance.
2. (a) Discuss about instruction set architecture.
(b) Explain the advantages and disadvantages of general purpose register.
3. (a) What are the techniques used for overcoming data hazards?
(b) Explain about 2-bit prediction scheme.
4. Explain about basic compiler techniques
5. (a) Explain about Miss penalty & Out - of - order execution process?
(b) What is the technique used to reduce Cache miss penalty.
6. (a) Explain about synchronization.
(b) What are the challenges for synchronization performance?
7. (a) Explain about Flash memory
(b) Explain about Bus translation.
8. Explain about clustering.

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IV B.Tech I Semester(R07)Regular Examinations, November/December 2010
ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
(Computer Science & Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE questions
All questions carry equal marks
?????

1. (a) What are the differences between cost versus price?

(b) What are the issues of cost and cost performance?
2. (a) How the memory address interpreted.
(b) Explain memory addressing modes with example
3. Explain the basic structure of Tomasulos approach.
4. (a) Explain about static branch prediction.
(b) Explain the users of VLIW approach
5. (a) Discuss about Virtual memory
(b) What is the difference between paging and segementation.
6. (a) What are the challenges of parallel processing
(b) Explain about cache coherence.
7. (a) Explain about transaction flow benchmark.
(b) Explain the design of an I/O system.
8. (a) Explain about generic interconnection N/W.
(b) Explain about Interconnection N/W media.

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IV B.Tech I Semester(R07)Regular Examinations, November/December 2010
ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
(Computer Science & Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE questions
All questions carry equal marks
?????

1. (a) Explain about measuring & reporting performance.

(b) Discuss about the levels of programs in decreasing order of accuracy of predition.
2. (a) Explain about the operations in instruction set.
(b) Explain operations for media & signal processing.
3. (a) What is data hazard? Explain the differentiate types of data hazards.
(b) What is instruction level parallelism?
4. (a) Explain about conditional & prediction instruction.
(b) What are the factors that are limited for conditional instructions?
5. Explain about protection of Virtual memory with examples.
6. (a) Explain about parallel architecture.
(b) Explain the performance metrics for communication mechanism.
7. Explain about RAID
8. (a) What are the issues in interconnecting networks?
(b) What are the examples of interconnection networks?

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IV B.Tech I Semester(R07)Regular Examinations, November/December 2010
ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
(Computer Science & Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE questions
All questions carry equal marks
?????

1. Explain about Amdhal’s law

2. (a) Explain modes of control flow instructions.
(b) Explain encoding of an instruction set.
3. (a) What is instruction level parallelism?
(b) Explain about data hazards
4. (a) Explain about compiler speculation with hardware support.
(b) Explain the issues of VLIW approach.
5. Explain about cache performance.
6. (a) Explain about distributed shared memory architecture.
(b) Explain with an example state translation diagram for an individual cache block in a directory
based system
7. (a) Explain abut magnetic disks
(b) Explain about optical disks
8. (a) What is clustering? What are the pros’ & con’s of clustering?
(b) Explain about interconnection network media.

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