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Machine instructions and Addressing modes. ALU, data‐path and control unit. Instruction pipelining. Pipeline hazards, Memory hierarchy: cache, main memory and secondary storage; I/O interface (Interrupt and DMA mode)

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\\\hline\textbf{1 Mark Count} & 3 &1&2&3&2&2&2&0&1&1&0&1.7&3
\\\hline\textbf{2 Marks Count} & 2 &2&2&4&1&3&4&3&2&5&1&2.8&5
\\\hline\textbf{Total Marks} & 7 &5&6&11&4&8&10&6&5&11&\bf{4}&\bf{7.3}&\bf{11}\\\hline
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Previous GATE Questions in CO and Architecture

29 votes
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4 votes
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65
9 votes
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66
State whether the following statements are TRUE or FALSE with reason:The flags are affected when conditional CALL or JUMP instructions are executed.
19 votes
4 answers
67
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4 answers
69
2 votes
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71
State whether the following statements are TRUE or FALSE:Data transfer between a microprocessor and an I/O device is usually faster in memory-mapped-I/O scheme than in I/...
5 votes
3 answers
72
3 votes
1 answer
73
45 votes
6 answers
76
The most relevant addressing mode to write position-independent codes is:Direct modeIndirect modeRelative modeIndexed mode
8 votes
1 answer
77
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59 votes
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