Computer Architecture Reviewer

A machine that can store and process information.

It is considered with the way hardware components are connected together to form a computer system

It is concerned with the structure and behavior of a computer system as seen by the user

It describes the processor of what assembly language programmer sees

Converts assembly language to machine language

Design of blocks defined in the microarchitecture at the register-transfer and gate levels

The way in which the components are interrelated

Transistor-level design of basic elements (gates, multiplexers, latches) as well as of ALUs or caches

It is a principle that states the performance improvement of a system as a whole is limited by its bottlenecks

In computer system, CPU stands for?

Contemporary computers generally have ___________

It is rigid, flat board that holds and interconnects chips and other electronic components

It lets the processor perform an instruction in multiple steps

When several instructions are in partial execution, and if they reference same data then the problem arises

It arises when an instruction depends upon the result of a previous instruction but this result is not yet available

It describes how quickly a given system can execute a program or programs

Response time is also known as:

Clock cycle time is the reciprocal of:

If Machine A is faster than Machine B, it means that response time is lower than on:

Ultra LSI computers were first invented in

The first generation of computers were:

Instruction cycle has Fetch cycle and _______

The transistor was invented in

It produced the first relatively capacious semiconductor memory

The ________ was the first chip invented by Intel

The year when Pentium was first introduced

A program runs in 15 seconds on Computer A that has 750 MHz clock. If you want to build Computer B to run the same program in 11 seconds with 1.4 times as many clock cycles as computer A, what clock rate should be used

Given the clock cycle per program of 10 and clock cycle time of 1.25 ns, find the CPU time

If computer A run a program in 10 seconds and computer B runs the same program in 15 seconds, how much faster is A than B?