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Code: 9D06103a
M.Tech - I Semester Regular & Supplementary Examinations, April/May 2013

ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE


(Common to DSCE, DECS & ES)
Time: 3 hours

Max. Marks: 60
Answer any FIVE questions
All questions carry equal marks
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1.

Write a short note on fundamentals of a computer design. Explain in detail the quantitative
principles of computer design.

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2. (a) What are the complications that one has to face while implementing predicated instructions?
Explain.
(b) Explain conditional or predicated instructions. Mention its advantages and disadvantages.

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3. (a) Explain in detail how to overcome the data hazards with examples.
(b) What are the limitations of instruction level parallelism? How to overcome hardware based
speculation?

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4. (a) Discuss in detail about the VLIKI approach.


(b) Contrast HW and SW solutions.

5. (a) When do you say a memory system is coherent? Explain about write sterilization.
(b) What is the difference between cost and price? Why they differ and by how much?

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6. (a) Write short notes on synchronization and multithreading.


(b) Label the architecture of symmetric shared memory.

7. (a) What are major functions of an I/O module?


(b) What is the difference between memory mapped I/O and isolated I/O?
(c) What is meant by direct memory access?
8. (a) Discuss in detail the steps to design a cluster.
(b) What are the practical issues in interconnecting networks? Explain with examples.

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