What is an interrupt? Explain each of the conditions under which an interrupt occurs 5m Dec2005 Interrupt An interrupt is an external signal that occurs due to an exceptional event. It causes interruption in the execution of current program of CPU. An interrupt may be generated by a number of sources, which may beeither internal… Read More »
Explain the working of the instruction pipelining, with the help of a diagram 5m Dec2005 INSTRUCTION PIPELINING To extract better performance instruction execution can be done through instruction pipeline. The instruction pipelining involves decomposing of an instruction execution to a number of pipeline stages. Some of the common pipeline stages can be instruction fetch (IF),… Read More »
In RAID levels, explain the features of those levels which have poor I/O request rate (read/write) 5m Dec2005 Redundancy of data industrial standard, which exists for multiple-disk database schemes, is termed as RAID, i.e., Redundant Array of Independent Disks. The basic characteristics of RAID disks are: Operating system considers the physical disks as a single… Read More »
Explain the following with the help of a suitable diagram or an example. Error detection and correction process 5m Dec2005 Error Detection and Correction Codes: The code, which helps in recognition and correction of errors Computer is an electronic media; therefore, there is a possibility of errors during data transmission. Such errors may result from… Read More »
Explain the following with the help of a suitable diagram or an example. Any two characteristics of video cards / adapters 5m Dec2005 FIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF VIDEO CARDS / ADAPTERS: The purpose of your graphic display system is to display bitmapped graphics on your monitor. The image displayed on your system thus consists of small… Read More »
Explain the following with the help of a suitable diagram or an example. Evaluation stack architecture 5m Dec2005 A stack is a data structure that implements Last-In-First-Out (LIFO) access policy. You could add an entry of data (or value) to the stack with a PUSH (value) Function and remove an entry of data (or value) from the… Read More »
Explain the following with the help of a suitable diagram or an example:- Parameter passing using stack in 8086 assembly language 5m Dec2005 Most HLLs use the stack to pass parameters because this method is fairly efficient. To pass parameters on the stack, push them immediately before calling the subroutine. The subroutine then reads this data… Read More »
MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS Course Code : MCS-012 Course Title : Computer Organisation and Assembly Language Programming Assignment Number : MCA (2)/012/Assign /2014-15 Maximum Marks : 100 Weightage : 25% A hypothetical 16 bit machine has PC, AC, MAR, IR, DR and Flag registers (You may assume the roles of these registers same as that… Read More »
MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS Course Code : MCS-012 Course Title : Computer Organisation and Assembly Language Programming Assignment Number : MCA (2)/012/Assign /2014-15 Maximum Marks : 100 Weightage : 25% An 8 bit data 10110011 after transmission is received as 10010011. Explain how SEC code will detect and correct this problem. SEC means… Read More »
Explain the concept of a function returning a pointer in C with an example 6m Jun2007 Function returning a pointer in C A function can also return a pointer to the calling program, the way it returns an int, a float or any other data type. To return a pointer, a function must explicitly mention… Read More »