Advance Microcontroller — Winter 2024

What is the Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) design philosophy? List down features of its.

Give different applications of ARM processors.

Which are the different features of ARM instruction set that make it suitable for embedded applications?

Explain Non-protected memory, MPU & MMU.

With a neat diagram explain the different general purpose registers of ARM processors.

What are banked registers? Show how the banked registers are utilized when the user mode changes to IRQ mode.

Explain ARM pipeline with 3,5,6 stages.

Discuss variable storage class: Automatic, Register and static.

List ARM development tools and advantages of Embedded C Programming.

How are interrupts or exceptions handled in ARM processors?

Justify the statement “Virtual memory is illusion of large main memory”.

Explain following instructions with at least one example for each. (1) BIC (2) EOR (3) TEQ (4) RSB

What is the use of paging mechanism? Show how paging is done in any of ARM families of processors.

What is the advantage of barrel shifter in ARM?

How will you perform bit-wise operation in Cusing ARM compiler?

Write a c program that send and receive data from UART device interfaced with ARM.

Explain following directives of ARM assembler 1. EQU 2. RN 3. ALIGN

Explain flush and clean operation performed on a cache memory in ARM

Discuss techniques for optimization of memory needs while writing C program for ARM based microcontroller.

What is a Thumb mode in ARM? Explain in brief.

Write ARM assembly language program for HEX number to ASCII conversion. Assume HEX number is stored in register R1.

Draw interfacing diagram to interface LCD with ARM processor. Write Assembly or Cprogram to display message “DIGITAL INDIA” on the LCD.

Write Clanguage program to set port pins P0.0 to P0.7 and P1.0 to P1.7 in ARM processor.

Compare AHB and APB of AMBA bus system of ARM Architecture.

Write a short note on stack implementation in ARM.