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Computer Architecture And Design

Subject : engineering
Instructions:
  • Answer 38 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is secondary memory?






2. What are the base units of GHz?






3. What is instruction - level parallelism?






4. What is price performance?






5. Amdahl's Law






6. What are embedded computers?






7. What is non - volatile memory?






8. What is the $epc register used for?






9. What does hardware refer to?






10. What is included in the term organization?


11. What is a real- time performance requirement?






12. What are the classes of computing applications (five)?






13. What is an Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)?






14. What are the hardware/software components affecting program performance?






15. One reason why two's compliment is used as opposed to signed magnitude or one's compliment?






16. What is volatile memory?






17. An example of non - volatile memory






18. Stored Program Concept






19. An example of an improvement that would impact throughput (but not response time).






20. Moore's Law






21. What are the five classic components of a computer?






22. What is throughput?






23. An example of an improvement that would impact response time (but not throughput).






24. What is response time?






25. What is the $sp register used for?






26. How can you encode an ISA?






27. What does jal <proc> do?






28. What is soft real- time?






29. What are the industry standard benchmarks to measure performance (e.g. - with different vendor chips)?






30. An example of something typically associated with RISC architecture that is not typical in CISC architecture.






31. What is the $pc register used for?






32. What is thread- level parallelism?






33. What are two examples of instruction - level parallelism?






34. How is CPU performance measured?






35. An example of volatile memory






36. What is a supercomputer?






37. What is main/primary memory?






38. What is data- level parallelism?