KERALA UNIVERSITY Class 8 computer system architecture Question Paper 2008

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A benchmark Program with 50000 Integer, 40000 Data Transfer, 10000 Floating Point and 8000 Control Instructions is executed on a 100 MHz processor. The instructions require $1,2,2$, and 2 clock cycles respectively for execution. Calculate the CPI, MI...
Explain the Omega and Crossbar interconnect network.
Explain the detection of parallelism with Bernstein's conditions. Is this an efficient technique? Justify.
Consider a two-level memory hierarchy $M_{1}$ and $M_{2}$ with access times $t_{1}$ and $t_{2}$, cost per byte $c_{1}$ and $c_{2}$, and capacities $s_{1}$ and $s_{2}$ respectively. The first level memory hit ratio $\mathrm{h}=0.9$. Calculate the effe...
What are the design trade-offs between large register files and large D-Cache?