Question Paper Code : 71757

B.E / B. Tech DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL / MAY 2017

Seventh Semester

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

EE6008 MICROCONTROLLER BASED SYSTEM DESIGN

(Regulation 2013)

Time : Three Hours Maximum: 100 Marks

Answer ALL Questions

PART A (10 x 2 20 Marks)

1. What are the benefits of having RISC architecture?

Refer Q. No: 5, Page No: TMQA.10

2. Define Brown out reset mode.

Refer Q. No: 16, Page No: TMQA.11

3. Mention the interrupts available in PIC Microcontroller.

Refer Q. No: 6, Page No: TMQA.20

4. Write an ALP to initialize the PORT A using PIC Microcontroller.

Refer Q. No: 2, Page No: TMQA.19

5. Microcontroller based control is more advantageous than conventional control Justify.

Refer Q. No: 3, Page No: TMQA.21

6. How temperature sensor is interfaced with PIC Microcontroller?

Refer Q. No: 4, Page No: TMQA.21

7. Define context switching.

Refer Q. No: 3, Page No: TMQA.28

8. State the function of ARMulator and define its operations at various levels of accuracy.

Refer Q. No: 4, Page No: TMQA.28

9. Draw the structure of multicycle instruction of three stage pipeline operation.

Refer Q. No: 15, Page No: TMQA.37

10. What is the role of a co-processor?

Refer Q. No: 16, Page No: TMQA.37

PART B (5 x 16 = 80 marks)

11. (a) With neat functional block diagram explain the architecture of PIC16C7X Microcontroller in
detail.

Refer Section 1.3, 1.3.1 Page Number: 1.21 to 1.26

(or)

(b) (i) Discuss in detail about memory organization of a PIC Microcontroller. (8)

Refer Section 1.2.1 Page Number: 1.9 to 1.11

(ii) Explain the various addressing modes in PIC, for accessing data memory. (8)

Refer Section 1.8 Page Number: 1.53 to 1.56

12. (a) Explain the process and procedure to display constant strings and variable strings.

Refer Section 2.11, 2.12 Page Number: 2.62 to 2.68

(or)

(b) Explain the concept of interrupt logic and interrupt structure of PIC Microcontroller with an
example.

Refer Section 2.2 Page Number: 2.1 to 2.5

13. (a) Illustrate with suitable example how I2C communication is carried out in PIC microcontroller.

Refer Section 3.2 Page Number: 3.2 to 3.6

(or)

(b) Explain the operation of ADC interfacing with PIC Microcontroller.

Refer Section 3.6 Page Number: 3.13 to 3.17

14. (a) (i) Explain the ARM Programmers model in detail, with supporting diagram. (10)

Refer Section 4.3 Page Number: 4.6 to 4.10

 (ii) Write the subroutine program to output a text string following a CALL Instruction using ARM
processor. (6)

Refer Section 4.7 Page Number: 4.56 to 4.57

(or)

(b) Write short notes on ARM MMU architecture.

Refer Section 4.8.6 Page Number: 4.66 to 4.72

15. (a) Elaborate the working principle of VLSI ISDN subscriber processor in detail.

Refer Section 5.9.2 Page Number: 5.47 to 5.49

(or)

(b) Write short notes on

(i) 5 stage pipeline ARM organization

Refer Section 5.3 Page Number: 5.4 to 5.8

(ii) Coprocessor data and register transfer

Answer:

For Co-processor data

Refer Section 5.7 Page Number: 5.31 to 5.33

For register transfer

Refer Section 5.6 Page Number: 5.25 to 5.27, and 5.29 to 5.31