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Chpt4aQuiz
Points 17

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TimeLimit 30Minutes

Questions 17

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Question1

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Foreveryinstructionthefirststepis?
dothedesiredoperation
fetchtheinstruction
readtheregisters

Question2

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Animplementationtechniquethatoverlapsmultipleinstructionsiscalled?

pipelining

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Question3

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Pipeliningiseasy.
True
False

Question4

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Pipeliningreducesthetimetoexecuteasingleinstruction(decreases
latency).
True
False

Question5

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Pipeliningreducesthetotaltimetoexecutemultipleinstructions(increases
throughput)?
True
False

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Question6

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Unlikeprogrammingamultiprocessor,pipeliningisbasicallyinvisibletothe
programmer.
True
False

Question7

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Whicharenotdeterminedbytheimplementationoftheprocessor?
CPI
Instructioncount
cycletime
ISA

Question8

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TheMIPSopcodefield
movesasneccesary
remainsrigidlyfixed

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Question9

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ALUALUdatahazardscanberesolvedusingbypassing/forwarding?
True
False

Question10

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LoadtoUseofLoaddatahazardscausepipelinestalls/bubbles?
True
False

Question11

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Atypeofbranchpredictionwherethehistoryofbranchbehavioriskeptand
usedtodecidewhethertoguessthatabranchwillbetakenornottakenis
called?
hybridprediction
dynamicprediction
staticprediction

Question12
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Awaytominimizethepenaltyofbranchesistokeepacacheofbranch
destinationsinaBTB,BTBstandsfor

branchtargetbuffer

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Question13

Howmanyinstructionscanbeexecutedconcurrently(atthesametime)that
is,theydon'tdependoneachothersresultsiscalledILPor?

instructionlevelparallelism

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Question14

Putthefollowingalphabeticallyorderedlistintopipeline(time)order:15
DataAccess

Execution

InstructionDecode

InstructionFetch

Writeback

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Question15

Inthesimple5stagepipelinethecompilercanminimizethebranchpenalty
by
instructionscheduling/ordering
usingthebranchdelayslot
dynamicbranchprediction

Partial

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Question16

Considerthreebranchpredictionschemes:predictnottaken,predicttaken,
dynamicprediction.Assumeallthreehavezeropenaltywhencorrectly
predictedand2cyclepenaltywhenwrong.Iftheaccuracyofthedynamic
predictoris90%,whichpredictoristhebestchoiceforeachofthefollowing
branches?
Abranchtakenwith95%
frequency

Abranchtakenwith5%
frequency

Abranchtakenwith70%
frequency

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dynamic

nottaken

taken

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Controlisthemostchallengingaspectofprocessordesign:itisboththe
hardestparttogetrightandthehardestparttomakefast.
True
False

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