ECS 201A Study Guide - Final Guide: Computer Architecture, Embedded System, High-Level Programming Language
9 Jan 2019
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Cheating on exams is prohibited by the academic code of conduct. I understand that if i am caught cheating on this exam my scores will be negated and i will receive no credit on the exam. Persons caught cheating will also face university disciplinary actions. I am incredibly honest, so this message is clearly only for the person sitting next to me. true and false are considered very short answers. [1] predicting the direction of a branch is not enough. [1] write down the average memory access time equation. [2] clock rates have grown by a factor of 1000 while power consumed has only grown by a factor of 30. [2] prefetching is one technique for reducing the miss rate. [2] lowering the associativity is one technique for reducing the hit time. [2] a merging write buffer is one technique for reducing the miss penalty. [2] using less than 20 words, explain the difference between coherence and consistency.
