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B.Tech IV Year I Semester (R07) Regular Examinations, November/December 2010

MICROCONTROLLERS & APPLICATIONS
(Electronics & Communication Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE questions
All questions carry equal marks

1. (a) Draw the pin diagram of 8051 microcontroller and explain the function of each pin.
(b) Explain in brief about the interrupt vectors available in 8051.
2. (a) Write notes on special function registers.
(b) Explain the significance and importance of PSW register bits and flags in microcontrollers.
3. (a) Explain the polling mechanism to select in interrupt among the pending interrupts in 8051
microcontroller.
(b) Explain the interrupt structure in 8051 microcontroller.
4. (a) Explain real time clock interrupts in 68HC11 microcontroller.
(b) Describe the concepts of interrupt interval, interval density and interval constraints related
to microcontrollers.
5. (a) Explain the interfacing concept of the 8051 microcontroller with analog to digital converter
with neat sketch.
(b) Discuss about robotics and embedded control in microcontrollers.
6. (a) Explain round robin scheduling for equal priority tasks.
(b) Explain the terms interrupt latency, interrupt response time and interrupt recovery time
in real time operating system.
7. (a) Draw and explain the architecture of 16-bit microcontrollers.
(b) Tabulate the comparison between 8-bit and 16-bit microcontrollers with respect to per-
formance parameters.
8. (a) Write in brief about 16-bit ARM instruction set.
(b) Briefly explain the different data transfer instructions in ARM processor.

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B.Tech IV Year I Semester (R07) Regular Examinations, November/December 2010
MICRO CONTROLLERS & APPLICATIONS
(Electronics & Communication Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE questions
All questions carry equal marks

1. Draw the block diagram of microcontroller and explain the functional operation in detail.
2. (a) Elaborate the process of assembling and running an 8051 microcontroller program.
(b) Write short note on loop and jump instruction in 8051 microcontroller.
3. (a) Discuss the hardware and software attributes of vectored interrupts.
(b) What are merits and demerits of interrupt driven data transfer?
4. (a) Explain how to set the TH and TL values for TIMER 0 in mode 0 operation.
(b) How to set the registers TH and TL when changing the frequency of operation? Explain.
5. (a) Explain with neat sketch the interfacing of 8051 microcontroller with LCD display con-
troller.
(b) Explain about industrial process control system.
6. (a) Explain the importance of semaphore in multitasking system.
(b) Discuss about RTX51 full preemptive scheduling.
7. (a) Explain the memory map in Intel 80196 family.
(b) Explain the I/O ports available in 16-bit microcontrollers.
8. (a) Write the features of ARM7 architecture.
(b) Explain briefly about ARM processor instruction set.

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B.Tech IV Year I Semester (R07) Regular Examinations, November/December 2010
MICRO CONTROLLERS & APPLICATIONS
(Electronics & Communication Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE questions
All questions carry equal marks

1. (a) Explain the function and formats of counters and timers in 8051 microcontroller.
(b) List out the interrupts available in 8051 and explain them in brief.
2. (a) Explain the addressing modes of 8051 instruction set.
(b) With an example explain the concept of opcode and operands in an instruction.
3. (a) Explain the various steps involved in executing an interrupt in a microcontroller.
(b) Define the following terms.
i. Interrupt service routine.
ii. Interrupt latency.
iii. Interrupt deadline.
4. Illustrate the different modes of 8051 microcontroller timers with suitable examples.
5. (a) Explain the interfacing circuit of flash memory with 8051 microcontroller.
(b) Develop a program to interface ADC with 8051 microcontroller with neat sketch.
6. (a) Write about RTX51 exemplary functionalities and their use for round robin scheduling.
(b) Explain in brief about semaphore and mailbox with an example.
7. (a) Write about internal special function registers of microcontroller.
(b) Describe the functioning of HSO unit and HSI unit in 80196.
8. (a) Describe about ARM architecture, organization and specification.
(b) Write short notes on addressing modes of ARM microcontroller.

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B.Tech IV Year I Semester (R07) Regular Examinations, November/December 2010
MICRO CONTROLLERS & APPLICATIONS
(Electronics & Communication Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE questions
All questions carry equal marks

1. What are the different kinds of memories available in 8051 microcontroller? Explain them in
detail.
2. (a) Explain the data and bit manipulation instructions in 8051 microcontroller.
(b) Illustrate the loop and jump instructions in 8051 microcontroller.
3. (a) Write in brief about multiple interrupt masking.
(b) Explain the advantages of polling for pending higher priority interrupt source with an
example.
4. (a) Explain the basic registers of timers in 8051 microcontroller.
(b) Write the mode-2 programming of timers in 8051 microcontroller in detail.
5. (a) Briefly explain the interface circuit that controls the angle in a servomotor.
(b) List out the capabilities of keyboard cum display controller 8259 microcontroller.
6. (a) Elaborate the steps involved in software development process.
(b) Describe the functions of integrated development environment.
7. (a) Explain the non-maskable and maskable interrupts depending upon hardware interrupts
in 80196.
(b) What is a high speed input (HSI) interrupt? Why do we call it as high speed?
8. (a) Explain the complete ARM register set in different modes of ARM processor.
(b) Explain how the changes of modes take place in ARM processor.

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