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Computer Architecture And Design

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






2. What does jal <proc> do?






3. Stored Program Concept






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






5. Amdahl's Law






6. What is volatile memory?






7. What is included in the term organization?

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






9. What is non - volatile memory?






10. What is a supercomputer?






11. What is instruction - level parallelism?






12. What is thread- level parallelism?






13. What is throughput?






14. What is soft real- time?






15. What is the $epc register used for?






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






17. What is response time?






18. What is a real- time performance requirement?






19. How can you encode an ISA?






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






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






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






23. Moore's Law






24. An example of volatile memory






25. How is CPU performance measured?






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






27. What is main/primary memory?






28. What are the base units of GHz?






29. What are embedded computers?






30. What is the $pc register used for?






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






32. What is data- level parallelism?






33. What does hardware refer to?






34. What is secondary memory?






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






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






37. An example of non - volatile memory






38. What is the $sp register used for?