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QUESTION BANK
UNIT-I
INTRODUCTION
2 Marks
1. Discuss the stored program concept.What are its advantages and disadvantages?
2. Why data bus is bidirectional and address bus is unidirectional in most
microprocessors? (MAY/JUNE 2007)
3. What is a bus? What are the different buses in a CPU? ( NOV/DEC 2006)
4. Define 3-address,2-address,1-address,0 -address instruction with an example.
(MAY/JUNE 2006)
5. What is the information conveyed by addressing modes? (NOV/DEC 2007)
6. Registers R1 and R2 of a computer contain the decimal values 1200 and 4600. What
is the effective address of the memory operand in each of the following instructions?
(a) Load 20(R1), R5
(b) Add - (R2), R5 (APRIL/MAY 2008)
7. What is the use of condition code register? (APRIL/MAY 2008)
8. Distinguish between auto increment and auto decrement addressing mode.
(APRIL/MAY 2010)
9. What is meant by ENIAC & EDVAC?
10. Write the general format for the Fixed point & floating numbers .
11. Define addressing mode.
12. What is a bus? What are the different buses in a CPU?
13. Define underflow and overflow.

8 or 16 Marks
1. Describe the different classes of instruction format with example.
2. Write notes on Instruction formats. (NOV/DEC 2007) & ( NOV/DEC 2006)
3. Explain about Instruction & Instruction Sequencing? ( NOV/DEC 2006)
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4. Describe Von Neumann Architecture (IAS Computer) in detail.
5. Explain in detail about the first generation of computer.
4. Explain the different types of Addressing modes with suitable examples.
(APRIL/MAY 2008)
6. Explain various instruction formats in detail.
(APRIL/MAY 2008) & (MAY/JUNE 2006)
7. Explain about Addressing modes?
(NOV/DEC 2007) & ( NOV/DEC 2006) & (MAY/JUNE 2007)
8. Registers R1 and R2 of a computer contains the decimal values 1200 and 2400
respectively. What is the effective address of the memory operand in each of the
following instructions?
i. Load 20(R1), R5
ii. Add (R2) , R5
iii. Move #3000, R5
iv. Sub (R1)+, R5 (MAY/JUNE 2006)
9. With a neat block diagram explain in detail about typical CPU.
10. With a a neat block diagram explain the Accumulator based CPU.
11. What are the different ways system can be designed? Explain in detail.