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Computer Architecture And Design

Subject : engineering
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  • Answer 38 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An example of something typically associated with RISC architecture that is not typical in CISC architecture.






2. What is the $epc register used for?






3. What is a real- time performance requirement?






4. How can you encode an ISA?






5. Amdahl's Law






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






7. What is secondary memory?






8. What is instruction - level parallelism?






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






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






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






12. Moore's Law






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






14. What is throughput?






15. What is response time?






16. What are the base units of GHz?






17. What is the $sp register used for?






18. What are embedded computers?






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






20. Stored Program Concept






21. What is non - volatile memory?






22. What is included in the term organization?


23. What does hardware refer to?






24. What does jal <proc> do?






25. What is a supercomputer?






26. How is CPU performance measured?






27. What is price performance?






28. What is thread- level parallelism?






29. What is volatile memory?






30. What is soft real- time?






31. What is data- level parallelism?






32. An example of volatile memory






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






34. An example of non - volatile memory






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






36. What is main/primary memory?






37. What is the $pc register used for?






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