JNTU Kakinada B-Tech 4-1 ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE R13 March 2018 Question Paper

IV B.Tech I Semester Supplementary Examinations, February/March – 2018
ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE (Electronics and Communications Engineering)Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 70
Question paper consists of Part-A and Part-B
Answer ALL sub questions from Part-A
Answer any THREE questions from Part-B
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PART ?A (22 Marks)1. a) Define computer architecture and organization. [4]
b) Name the four steps in pipelining. [4]
c) Discuss the limitations of ILP. [3]
d) i. Discuss about cross cutting issues. [4]
e) List the methods for providing synchronization in threads. [4]
f) Examples of inter connection. [3]

PART ?B (3×16 = 48 Marks)2. a) i. Discuss Amdahl?s law. Explain how to measure and report the performance. [8]
b) Describe the basic instruction types. Give the control sequence for execution of
instruction Add[R3],R1.
[8]

3. a) Discuss about the Classic five stage pipe lined RISC processor. [8]
b) Define pipelining with example and explain its need. [8]

4. a) Explain in detail the steps involved in Tomasulo?s algorithm assuming proper
data structures.
[8]
b) Explain the complete procedure how hardware supports for exposing more
parallelism at compile time?
[8]

5. a) What are different forms of parallelism? Explain. [8]
b) Discuss briefly about the static branch prediction scheme. [8]

6. a) Explain in detail the symmetric shared memory architectures and explain the
cache coherence problem in detail.
[8]
b) Discuss briefly about instruction level parallelism. [8]

7. a) Define cluster and discuss designing of clusters in detail. [8]
b) Explain how the prediction and speculation support will be provided in IA64? [8]

Code No: PT41046
Set No. 1
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