Mtech Assignment Questions

M.TECH ISEM ASSIGNMENT
SUBJECT:CSD

1.Discuss IA-32 Pentium processor addressing, instruction set (MMX,SIMD)?

2. Write the differences between interrupts and exceptions? Briefly discuss about the
exceptions.
3. Why is the wait-for-Memory-Function-completed step needed when reading from or
writing to the main memory? Explain.
4. Differentiate the micro-operation, micro-instruction and micro-program.
5. What is Pipelining? Discuss about pipeline performance issues?
6. Explain in detail store program concept?(Von-Neumann architecture).
7. what do you mean by cycle stealing and explain in detail direct memory access method?
8.What is I/O interface, Device driver, Interrupt handler and explain their codes?
9. explain Hardwired control and Micro programmed control in detail and give differences?
10.Explain execution of complete instruction and multiple bus organization?