Have you studied pipelining? List the 5 stages of a 5 stage pipeline. Assuming 1 clock per stage, what is the latency of an instruction in a 5 stage machine? What is the throughput of this machine ?
4 12503For a single computer processor computer system, what is the purpose of a processor cache and describe its operation?
3 10166Explain the operation considering a two processor computer system with a cache for each processor.
2348Describe a finite state machine that will detect three consecutive coin tosses (of one coin) that results in heads.
1 16660In what cases do you need to double clock a signal before presenting it to a synchronous state machine?
3 18845You have a driver that drives a long signal & connects to an input device. At the input device there is either overshoot, undershoot or signal threshold violations, what can be done to correct this problem?
4 14346
Differentiate between hardware and software interrupts and state examples for both?
Explain the Charge Sharing problem while sampling data from a Bus?
Classify interrupts on the basis of signals.
What is kernel paging?
Why is it better to use multi-threading polling instead of a single threading model?
How many i/o ports are present in the 8086?
How do you size NMOS and PMOS transistors to increase the threshold voltage?
What are the languages used in embedded system?
Why embedded system is useful?
Describe a software development life cycle that you've managed.
Explain sim and rim instructions?
What is the last programming book you read?
Explain the significance of signal?
Define discrete time
Explain the difference between "set" logic, and "procedural" logic.