B.C.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2018
Fifth Semester
Computer Application
COMPUTER SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
(CBCS 2011 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 x 2 20)
Answer all questions.
1. What are the types of complements present in a digital
computer design?
2. What are the functions of program counter and stack
pointer?
3. What is a Machine Language?
4. What is meant by Symbolic address?
5. What are the major components of cpu?
6. What is meant by control word?
7. Write the abstract table for Addition and Substraction of
Signed-Magnitude numbers.
8. Define Interrupt.
9. What is meant by locality of reference?
10. What is meant by Hit Ratio and Miss ratio?
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Part B x 5 25)
Answer all questions, choosing either or
11. Explain the Stored Program Organization.
Or
Draw the diagram for how basic computer registers
are connected to a common bus.
12. Write a assembly language program to substract to
numbers.
Or
Write a assembly language to multiply two positive
numbers.
13. Explain the General Register Organization in
detail.
Or
Explain about the register stack.
14. Explain the array multiplier with logic diagram.
Or
Explain the Hardware for both algorithm with
flow chart.
15. Explain about the RAM and ROM chips.
Or
Describe the characteristics of Multiprocessors.
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Part C x 10 30)
Answer any three questions.
16. Explain about the timing and control unit of a digital
computer.
17. Explain the Input-Output configuration and instructions
in detailed manner.
18. Describe the Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC).
19. Describe the Direct Memory Access transfer with
diagram.
20. Describe the Virtual Memory.
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