1) Briefly explain the evolution of microprocessor based on IC fabrication technology clock frequency & instruction cycle.
2) Explain Moore’s law.
3) What do you understand by instruction set?
4) Define following key wordy respective to digital system design.
(a) Synthesis (b) Specification
(c) Analysis (d) Implementation
5) What is dynamic static instruction briefly explain.
6) Define processor performance.
7) How can you estimate processor performance using Iron law?
8) How can you optimize processor performance?
9) Briefly explain prototype model for processor performance evaluation.
10) Briefly explain simulation based processor performance evaluation method.
11) What is instruction level parallel processing?
12) How pipeline processing increase the performance of a processor.
13) How can you estimate the performance of a parallel processor?
14) What is processor level parallelism?
15) What are the limitations of instruction level parallelism?
16) Briefly explain all the classification of ILP machine.
17) What is super scalar machine?
18) Distinguish between super scales & very long instruction word machine.
(1)Briefly explain the evolution of microprocessor based on IC fabrication technology clock frequency & instruction cycle?
The first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, was introduced in 1971. The 4004 was a 4-bit processor consisting of approximately 2300 transistors with a clock frequency of just over 100 kilohertz (kHz). Its primary application was for building calculators. The year 2001 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the birth of microprocessors.
The amazing decades of the evolution of microprocessors
| |1970-1980 |1990-2000 |000-2010 |2000-2010 |
|Transistor count |2K-100K |100K-1M |1M-100M |100M-2B