Official Bihar Engineering University examination question papers, marks distribution, and questions transcript. Available exam sessions: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2019, 2017.
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Unit-1.0
Functional blocks of a computer: CPU • Memory • Input-output subsystems • Control unit • Instruction set architecture of a CPU-registers • Instruction execution cycle • RTL interpretation of instructions • Addressing modes • Instruction set • Case study instruction sets of some common CPUs
Unit-2.0
Data representation: Signed number representation • Fixed and floating point representations • Character representation • Computer arithmetic - Integer addition and subtraction • Ripple carry adder • Carry look-ahead adder • Etc. Multiplication shift-and-add • Booth multiplier • Carry save multiplier • Etc. Division restoring and non-restoring techniques • Floating point arithmetic
Unit-3.0
Introduction to x86 architecture • CPU control unit design: Hardwired and micro- programmed design approaches • Case study design of a simple hypothetical CPU • Memory system design: Semiconductor memory technologies • Memory organization
Unit-4.0
Peripheral devices and their characteristics: Input-output subsystems • I/O device interface • I/O transfers-program controlled • Interrupt driven and DMA • Privileged and non- privileged instructions • Software interrupts and exceptions • Programs and processes-role of interrupts in process state transitions • I/O device interfaces SCII • USB
Unit-5.0
Pipelining: Basic concepts of pipelining • Throughput and speedup • Pipeline hazards • Parallel Processors: Introduction to parallel processors • Concurrent access to memory and cache coherency