1. Briefly describe salient features of the Pentium series of microprocessors. 2. With the help of...

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1. Briefly describe salient features of the Pentium series of microprocessors.

2. With the help of a labelled diagram, briefly describe the operational role of the three types of bus in a microcomputer system.

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Question (1). Briefly describe salient features of the Pentium series of microprocessors. 
Answer.  
There are many features of Pentium series of microprocessor – 
a. Data bus – It has 64 bit data bus which supports burst read, burst write back cycles 
and also supports pipelining. 
b. Instruction cache – It has two Integer execution units, one Floating point execution 
unit. It supports Dual instruction pipeline by which two instructions can executed 
simultaneously. 
c. Floating point unit – It supports faster internal operations and Local advanced 
programmable interrupt controller. 
d.  Data Integrity and Error Detection – Pentium processor has significant error 
detection and data integrity capability. Data parity checking, address parity checking 
and internal parity checking features are added. 
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1. Briefly describe salient features of the Pentium series of microprocessors. 2. With the help of a labelled diagram, briefly describe the operational role of the three types of bus in a...

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