Question Bank of IA-2

Question No.1 (2 marks questions each)

1.a.Write ICW or OCW formats of 8259 IC.

1. b. Instruction issue algorithm of Pentium processor (Integer OR Floating point)

1. c. Comparison of 8086, 80386, Pentium-I, Pentium-II and Pentium-III. OR Difference

between decoding techniques. OR Difference between real mode, protected mode and
virtual mode of 80386.

1. d. Explain different data transfer modes of 8257 DMAC controller OR Control word
register format of 8255 IC OR Cascade connection of three 8259 IC’s.

1. e. State the use of RF, TF, VM, NT, IOPL flag bits. OR Explain hyper threading technology
and its use in Pentium 4 processor.

1. f. Explain hyper-threading technology.

Question No 2

A. Question on designing using RAM and ROM on the system (Practise all university questions)

OR

B. Block Diagram of IC 8255/IC8259/IC8257/Pentium Processor/80386 processor with explanation.

Question No 3

A. Explain integer pipeline stages OR explain how the flushing of pipeline problem is minimized in
Pentium architecture.(Branch Prediction Logic)

B. Question on cache organisation OR MESI model