Computer Architecture C952 Study Guide Graded A+

What does extending to 16 bits yield given -5 in 8-bit 2's complement 11111011? {Ans: 11111111 11111011}What is used by virtual memory to increase performance? {Ans: Translation-lookaside buffer (looks for items used recently)}Given four sets of ARM instructions that take the same amount of time and processing power to execute. How much faster would the instructions complete if executed 1,000 times using a pipelining methodology? {Ans: 4, pipelining efforts are 4fold or the number of sets}Which technology improves the efficiency of processor utilization by ensuring all processors remain utilized, even when waiting for instruction sequences to complete? {Ans: multithreading}A cache has 16 one-word blocks. Memory blocks are mapped to fully associative caches. Memory block is 15. What is the cache position given the cache configuration and memory block? {Ans: Any of the 16 blocks, since it is fully associated.}What does each bank of modern DRAMS consist of? {Ans: rows}