SYSC 4507 Midterm: Exam-SYSC4507-2009February

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Systems and Computer Engineering
• Course: SYSC 4507
• Professor: All

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This midterm has 8 pages and 9 questions. Make sure you have a complete copy: no notes or books allowed, positively no talking in the examination room, all questions are to be answered on this exam paper. Sysc4507 test #1 - february 25, 2009 - page 1 of 8. Question 1: evolution [4 marks: {3 marks} describe the harvard architecture including a diagram. Provide 1 benefit and 1 disadvantage to this approach: {1 marks} give one example of how early electronic computer designs were influenced by the mechanical computers that came before them. You have been asked to design a variable-length opcode that supports the following instructions: 15 frequently-used instructions (used 90% of the time, 64 infrequently-used instructions (used 10% of the time, {2 marks} describe your variable length encoding scheme. Sysc4507 test #1 - february 25, 2009 - page 2 of 8. Suppose we are considering two different machines: a jaguar with a 1 ghz clock rate and a.