'my mp3 player is smaller than yours!' 'my machine has more memory than ... 'I have a new playstation 2' Reliability 'my computer works!' Classic Sports Network ...
Whitewater Rafting Whitewater Kayaking. Timeline is about the same as microprocessors: ... Rafting in the 1970s. Want to go rafting in the 70s? Find an old ...
10 questions on I/O. Lecture notes, L30-L34. Chapter 8. 5 questions ... Be generally familiar with caches ... Locating the proper platter. Rotating the disk to ...
add, branch, load/store. multiply, divide, sqrt. mmx_add. What storage locations? ... Retrieves 8-bit value from memory location ($4 1000) and puts the result into $3 ...
Operations on CAMs. Search: the primary way to access a CAM. Send data to CAM memory ... 5 storage element CAM array of 9 bits each. Previous Use of CAMs ...
Assume the programmer knows the exact configuration of the machine. ... Virtual memory lets the programmer 'see' a memory array larger than the DRAM ...
Have some registers that are caller saved, some that are callee saved. If you need a register, but not at the site of a call, allocate a caller saved. ...
PC. Inst. mem. Register file. M. U. X. A. L. U. M. U. X. 1 ... PC 1. PC 1. target. ALU. result. op. dest. valB. op. dest. ALU. result. mdata. eq? instruction ...
Up to 3 instructions can be decoded simultaneously (one per decoder) ... Pre-decode instruction mem ... How long does it take to complete the LC2K1 decode stage? ...
An entry consists of a block of data and the associated tag, valid, dirty bits. ... How many dirty blocks are evicted when executing the instruction sequence? ...