1) When a floating point number is said to be in normalized form? What are guard digits?
2) Describe the terms in detail:
(a) Maximum parallelism degree P
(b) Utilization rate µ
3) What do you mean by carry look ahead adders?
4) Describe the term CMAR. Write down its significance?
5) Describe the term “Locality of reference” in detail. Write down the two factors in it?
6) Write down the difference between ‘one-way control’ and ‘two-way control’ in asynchronous data transfer.
7) Describe the use of ‘compress’ and ‘merge’ instructions?
8) Describe ‘Pipeline efficiency’ and ‘Throughput’ in detail.
9) Write down the three interconnection networks which are used to connect processors, memory-modules and input-output channels in the tightly-coupled Multiprocessor System?
10) Write down the various sections in the static data flow computer structure?