ECS 201A Study Guide - Final Guide: Very Long Instruction Word, Superscalar Processor, Operand
9 Jan 2019
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true and false are considered very short answers. [1] correctly predicting that a branch is taken is not enough. [1] write down the average memory access time equation. [1] superscalar and vliw are 2 ways to increase ilp. [1] the nvidia gpu exploits multiple ___________ in order to achieve maximum performance. [2] coherence refers to ________ is returned while consistency has to do with ________. [2] what are the two biggest challenges to obtaining a substantial decrease in response time when using a. [3] the power consumed by a chip has increased over time, but the clock rate has increased at a far greater relative rate. Explain how designers keep the chip from melting. [2] area on the die used to be the most critical design constraint. [4] in your rst design of a 4-stage pipeline (f,d,e,m/w) f takes 27 time units, d takes 24, e takes 52, and. If not, explain what you could do to x it.
