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My question is, how can I get the line number just by dividing the number by the cache line size(64)? For example, let's take 510, 510 in binary is 000000000(00111)111110 , so 00111 is show the line ...
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The idea is to combine these two principles together. If we use zero-address instructions in a CPU, this implies having a stack memory. However, the idea of Von Neumann architecture is to store both ...
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I am attempting to formalize this structural lattice math; Mathematical Formalism Let $\Lambda$ be a finite cubic lattice of size $N \times N \times N$ with periodic boundary conditions, isomorphic to ...
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I've done some very basic bench marking for the following: ...
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In a mock exam for my CS course in computer architecture there is the question: "explain why the multicycle datapath is faster than the single cycle datapath." The TA wrote the answer: "...
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I have read Charles Petzold's Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software. On page 200 and onwards he introduces two RAM arrays called code and data. The code RAM array have ...
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From my understanding: A block is the size of the smallest unit stored by the cache (normally a collection of words due to spatial locality). The block size is the number of bytes per block. A set is ...
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In sec 2.1.6 where he talks about Processor Level Parallelism, he mentions an example of Nvidia Fermi GPU. Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) heavily rely on SIMD processing to provide massive ...
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I'm currently studying Computer Architecture / Computer Organization, and I'm struggling to find resources to understand a few specific topics. These are the four areas I’m focusing on: Register ...
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I am currently studying pipelined CPU architectures, specifically focusing on data hazards and forwarding. I have a question regarding stalls in a 5-stage pipeline with forwarding. Consider the ...
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If one asks why we have not evolved to 128-bit processors, there is a whole set of discussions seemingly from the glass half empty crowd as to why we would not need such massive CPU data addressing ...
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In a DRAM architecture problem, I’m given: DRAM: 16MB × 64-bit DRAM chip: 512KB × 4-bit My professor repeatedly referred to these as Mega-Bytes and Kilo-Bytes, but ...
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I cannot understand solution to the problem 5.5 in "Computer Systems: Programmers Perspective". I this chapter it cover microarchitecture based optimizations and data path dependency. As a ...
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I'm curious as to whether there are any functional examples of or research about General-Purpose Analog Computers out there at the moment. So any computing system that can: store pure analog values ...
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since unsigned and signed integers uses same components to compute then how does the overflow and carry flags are set?
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