Tuesday, December 29, 2015

CMIS 310 Homework 7 (UMUC)


CMIS 310 Homework 7 (UMUC)
This homework is worth 10% of your course grade.

Read each problem carefully.  Failure to follow the instructions for a problem will result in a zero score for that problem.

Submit the completed Homework via Assignment in LEO.

CHAPTER 8
1.         Do Exercise 4 in Chapter 8 (System Software) of Null and Lobur
2.         Do Exercise 11 in Chapter 8 (System Software) of Null and Lobur
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3.         Do Exercise 12 in Chapter 8 (System Software) of Null and Lobur
4.         Do Exercise 13 in Chapter 8 (System Software) of Null and Lobur
CHAPTER 9
5.Do Exercise 6 in Chapter 9 (Alternative Architectures) of Null and Lobur
6.Do Exercise 33 in Chapter 9 (Alternative Architectures) of Null and LoburFor problems 7 through 9, consider a CPU that implements two parallel fetch-execute pipelines for superscalar processing. Show the performance improvement over scalar pipeline processing and no-pipeline processing, assuming an instruction cycle similar to figure 4.1 in the Section I B of  “Advanced Systems Concepts”, i.e.:


10.a.    What is the essential characteristic of the superscalar approach to processor design?

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