EECS 470 Midterm: EECS 470 470EX1W14
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I have neither given nor received aid on this exam nor observed anyone else doing so. Calculators are allowed, but no pdas, portables, cell phones, etc. Don"t spend too much time on any one problem. You have about 120 minutes for the exam. Be sure to show work and explain what you"ve done when asked to do so. Clearly mark which one you want graded or we will grade the first one. Page 1 of 11: fill-in-the-blank or circle the best answer [12 points, -2 per wrong/blank, minimum 0, given an 8-kb, two-way associative cache with 16-byte lines, you will need ______ bits to index the cache. The branch prediction rate for this program is about 95% and only 10% of all instructions are branches. The mispredictions are mostly from the same branch. This processor has a rob with more than 128 entries.
