Micro Processors - |_ O \/ E 'em

One of the subjects that made me feel that my engineering was worth the penny, prior to which i thought that this engineering was a mere waste of time, energy and resources (if done in Tamil Nadu). So what makes me love this subject? The very fact that my computers, printers and mobile phones contain this wonderful thing called processors and with ads on dual, quad, etc cores and the prospect of studying them and understanding their architecture is something that certainly makes me go gaagaa over them. So what is a microprocessor? It is essentially a computer on a micro chip, capable of taking care of the memory operations, arithmetic and logical operations. A processor that has been included in our purview of study is 8085/86 which were from Intel. The 8085 is an eight-bit microprocessor introduced by Intel in 1977.

Von Neumann architecture is followed by 8085, with a 8 bit and a 16 bit data bus. It had all the features like the clock generator, system controller, thus increasing the level of system integration.

Oh my goodness, i never wanted to go into its technical details, so let me stop writing about them, however i was then in a very excited state that i wanted to write bout this for some unknown reason and i shall leave it here....(tired and i need a good sleep now, so bye)

Dusting off the cobwebs....Dust...dust...............

Long time ever since I gave a damn to this blogspot, save the ads clicking sessions which are quite regular. This week, quite hectic or torturous as i would prefer to call saw me in the depths of despair owing to eleventeen hundred messages (give or take some hundreds) that i would have received, at late night hours, during classes, when i relieve myself ;), during lunch sessions regarding the outbreak (oh that word is used generally for contiguous diseases, isnt?) of Anna university semester results. Now that you would have realized that outbreak is a mild term to be used in this context. The unwritten agenda of Anna university probably holds the maximum number of oxymoronic-features ever written. Some being sound-disturbance of mental health, uncomprehendable-easy to understand rules, expect-unexpected results, and so on. A perspicacious and diligent worker will surely succumb to the vagaries of this cruel system of evaluation that has been striding with pride and arrogance for about half a century. Do your best and leave the rest to God has been replaced by Try doing the best and rest is for re-evaluating. Rumors fly sky high during the result announcement hours that all the sites excepting the anna university sites publish the results and that the Anna university Server's reflexes are down by 200% that one will feel that a 2Mbps connection was a mere waste of money.
Thou shall tolerate all this, but the very moment you get your results you keep staring at the page for sometime wondering if there has been an identity theft looking at the scores that have come. The first column that is generally checked by all the private engineering college students of Anna university would be Pass/Fail column and when you see a line of P's neatly arranged you exhale tonnes of air with that moves the monitor an inch behind ;). But what do these Anna univ people gain through this insane intention??? Technically speaking the people who evaluate the papers are not adequately fed, neither they are given their salaries nor the time to evaluate, thus an evaluator shall obviously resort to unscrupulous marking system. I'm strongly reminded of the documentary film for just ten minutes but it had a life time impact on me. It was about an evaluator's day at the evaluation centre. He enters the hall wherein he is given a big bunch of board exam papers which is to be evaluated and he boisterously begins it with a neat marking system-i mean a justified one, and when he takes the second paper a mosquito hovers around him and he tries to shoo it off, and guess what, the paper had not got the marks it deserved and then came the third paper by which the mosquito had created enough torment to him and was biting him and he was trying to hit it in a frenzy fashion which saw 'zeros' more prominent in the paper and ultimately the score hit a bare minimum of just twenty marks and the documentary ended. This documentary unfortunately came to my notice two days after my board exams ended, imagine my plight. I got seriously pissed off and i made it a point to pray to the God that my paper shall go to a presence-of-mosquito-non -disturbed-man. The more studying you did for the exam, the less sure you are as to which answer they want. The student never knows what is the exact answer that the evaluator expects neither the evaluator understands what the student has written, so they are always like the two goal keepers of a football trying to communicate with each other shouting from their ends. 'What we know is not what He knows' is the thing that has been sinking in me since its been two years with this lame system.


I shall leave this post at this point so as to not give a conclusion cos the problem doesn't seem to have a solution or atleast it hasn't been attempted to be solved or at least i don't wanna try bursting my head attempting to search for solutions as i have enough on my plate for now...................
As for the picture above, its one of my all time favorite question papers :D ;)