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University Question
UNIT 1 1. Highlight the merits and demerits of single purpose processors and generalpurpose processors.How a single purpose processor is distinctly different from a general-purpose processor?(July 2010) 2. Explain the three Processor Technologies Briefly (Dec 2011) 3. What is a design metric? mention design metrics that a design engineer should consider? (July 2011) 4. Write short notes on IC technology(Dec 2011) 5. Derive the equation for percentage loss for any market rise . A product was delayed by 4 weeks in releasing to market. The peak revenue for on time entry to market would occur after 20 weeks for a market rise angle by 45. Find the percentage revenue loss. (july 2009) 6. Compare GPP,SPP and ASSP along with their block diagrams (july 2009). 7. Mention the characteristics and briefly explain the list of design metrics of an embedded system (08) May/June 2010 8. Determine the percentage of revenue loss if the products lifetime is 89 weeks and the delay in the market is 8 weeks. Derive the formula used. (06) May/June 2010 UNIT 2 1. Write an algorithm for GCD with more time complexity and write the FSDM and also determine total number of steps required for GCD. (June 2010) 2. Explain the different methods to optimize the FSDM (Dec 2010) 3. Explain pipelining for instruction execution with dish cleaning.(July 2009) 4. Briefly explain the purpose of data path and controller in a single purpose processor (06) May/June 2010 5. Explain various addressing modes used by processors, with example (06) May/June 2010

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UNIT -3 1. Explain the working of timer.(June 2010) 2. Explain the working of stepper motor using a driver.(July 2009) 3. Describe the working of a PWM unit (Dec 2010) 4. The analog input range for an 8-bit ADC is -5V to +5V. determine the resolution of this ADC and also the digital output in binary when the input is -2V.also trace the successive approximation steps fro verification.(june 2010) 5. Explain how UART is used for communication. List its advantages. (08) May/June 2010 6. What is a watch dog timer? List its uses. A watchdog timer that uses two cascaded 16-bit up-counters is connected to an 11.981 MHz oscillator. A timeout should occur if the function watchdog_reset is not called within 5 minutes. What value should be loaded into the up-counter pair when the function is called? (06) May/June 2010 7. Given an analog input signal whose voltage ranges from 5 to 5 V, and a 8-bit digital encoding, calculate the correct encoding 1.2 V, and then trace the successive approximation approach to find the correct encoding. (06) May/June 2010 UNIT - 4 1. Explain the features of flash memory, SRAM and OTP RAM.(July 2009) 2. Describe set associative cache mapping technique. What are its merits and demerits? (july 2009) 3. What is memory hierarchy? How does the cache operate? Discuss the cache mapping techniques. List their merits and demerits. (10) May/June 10 4. Briefly explain OTPROM, EEPROM, RDRAM, FPMRAM.(10) May/June 10

UNIT-5 1. Describe shared data problem with an example. 2. Explain the need for interrupts in processors and mention briefly the various events that take place when a processor is interrupted (10) (May/ June 10) 2 ECE/SJBIT

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3. Describe round robin architecture for digital multimeter example.(June 2010) 4. Explain the need for interrupts in processors and mention briefly the various events that take place when a processor is interrupted (10) (May/ June 10) UNIT 6 1. How does a microprocessor respond to a button under an RTOS.(July 2011) 2. What is semaphore? How does it help in shared data access along with code.(Dec 2011) 3. What are the basic problem in semaphores.(june 2010) 4. Describe the use of message queues.(July 2011) 5. Wrtie a code for delaying a task with RTOS delay function.(Dec 2011)

UNIT 7 & 8 1. Explain the basic telegraph operation with block diagram.(July 2011) 2. What are the advantages of using RTOS software architecture.(Dec 2010) 3. How to avoid creating and destroying of tasks.(July 2009) 4. Explain the design of underground tank monitoring system.(Dec2009) 5. Waht are the techniques to save power and memory. (Dec 2010)

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