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COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

III B.TECH CSE A & B SEMESTER-II

UNIT-1 1. Explain the development milestone of a computer in detail? 2. What are the various elements to be considered for modern computers? Explain with neat diagram? 3. a. Explain distributed memory multicomputer with neat diagram? b. Write about SIMD super computer architecture? 4. a. What are the different vector processor models which are available in market? b. What is multiprocessor architecture? Explain the shared memory multiprocessor architecture with neat diagram?

UNIT-2 1. Explain memory hierarchy design with neat diagram? 2. Discuss about various advanced optimization techniques to increase cache performance? 3. Support the given statement is true & how pipelined cache access to increase cache band with small & simple first level caches to reduce hit Time & power? 4. a. Explain virtual memory protection? b. What is virtual memory? Explain with neat diagram?

UNIT-3 1. Explain about various types of instruction set architecture with neat diagram? 2. What are the differences between typical RISC and CISC architectures? 3. Write about the characteristics RISC architecture and explain the advantages over CISC architecture? 4. a. Discuss about hierarchical memory technology in the architecture? b. What is cache coherence problem? Explain about different Strategies to be used to solve the coherence problem?

UNIT-4 1. What are the differences between linear and non-linear pipelined processors? 2. a. Explain about synchronous model with neat diagram? b. Explain the Speedup, Efficiency and Throughput with an example? 3. Explain about instruction execution phases with neat diagram? 4. How to solve Reservation and latency analysis problems?

UNIT-5 1. Write short notes on Crossbar switch and Multiport memory Multistage network 2. Explain vector access memory scheme? 3. Explain about multistage network with neat diagrams? 4. What are the applications of multistage network? UNIT-6 1. What is cache coherence? What are the possible ways are there to solve this problem? 2. a. Explain about snoopy bus protocols in detail? b. Explain about Directory based protocol? 3. Explain message passing mechanism in detail? 4. a. What are the various flow control strategies are to be used to transfer the data? b. What is multi casting routing algorithm? Explain?

UNIT-7 1. Explain the CM2-architecture with neat diagram? 2. How the inter process communication can be done between more than one processes? Explain? 3. How the control processor will work in MIMD architecture? 4. What is VSIMD? Explain?

UNIT-8 1. What are the differences between structural parallelism and instruction level parallelism? 2. What are the various parallel algorithms are available for parallel processing of data? 3. Explain the stream processing method? 4. Explain the Cray line of super computer?

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