Exam 15: Reduced Instruction Set Computers

SPARC refers to an architecture defined by ________.

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Question 41

Introduced by IBM with its System / 360,the _________ is a set of computers offered with different price and performance characteristics that presents the same architecture to the user.

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Question 42

Pipelining is a means of introducing parallelism into the essentially sequential nature of a machine-instruction program.

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Question 43

________ can improve performance by reducing loop overhead,increasing instruction parallelism by improving pipeline performance,and improving register,data cache,or TLB locality.

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Question 44

Cache memory is a much faster memory than the register file.

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Question 45

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SPARC refers to an architecture defined by ________.

Introduced by IBM with its System / 360,the _________ is a set of computers offered with different price and performance characteristics that presents the same architecture to the user.

Pipelining is a means of introducing parallelism into the essentially sequential nature of a machine-instruction program.

________ can improve performance by reducing loop overhead,increasing instruction parallelism by improving pipeline performance,and improving register,data cache,or TLB locality.

Cache memory is a much faster memory than the register file.

Basic Concepts and Computer Evolution

Performance Issues

A Top-Level View of Computer Function and Interconnection

Cache Memory

Internal Memory

External Memory

Input Output

Operating System Support

Number Systems

Computer Arithmetic

Digital Logic

Characteristics and Functions

Addressing Modes and Formats

Processor Structure and Function

Parallelism and Superscalar Processors

Parallel Processing

Multicore Computers

General-Purpose Graphic Processing Units

Control Unit Operation

Microprogrammed Control

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