conception about bigger space before?

What is parallel programming?

types of multiprocessors?

mainframe?

supercomputer?

what make supercomp and mainframe similar?

Changes in technology

perception on size of a device

graphical representation of the relationship between learning and experience

Moore's Law

Why does Moore's Law's meaning never change?

What is a transistor?

What does a computer system do?

Why does tech improve exponentially?

transistor density?
die size?
disk?

task of computer architecture & factors to consider when recommending

yield?

formula for cost of die

IC cost formula

cost when finding out the good/bad die wafers

2000 die wafers, 50% die yield, 25% IC yield
answer?

die in the beginning..............

direct cost?
gross margin?
ave discount?

time it takes to finish one task

how many tasks that can be performed at a given time

execution time & performance??

Amdahl's Law

Fraction enhanced and Speedup enhanced

formula of amdahl's law

CPU clock

What is a cycle?

CPU and floating numbers

Locality of reference

interaction among CPU, RAM and HD

temporal locality?
spatial locality?

- what is a benchmark?
- types of benchmark?

Computer hardware
- what are the parts of the computer?

what is a control unit?
what is a datapath?

Von Neumann Machine vs Harvard Archi

What is the memory hierarchy

- boss inside the CPU
- fed with instructions
- without its signals, other parts of CPU will not function

parts of this have specific roles that are non-flexible; one primary example is register; general purpose- can hold general data and special purpose- limited to data specified to it (adobo analogy)

higher vs lower programming language

it performs the mapping
- sets the representation
- allows the operation to happen

instruction cycle

memory address register
memory data register
instruction register

signal issued by CU to fetch the instruction

difference between risc and cisc

set of machine level instructions for a particular type of computer or hardware

the sequence of ops involved in processing an instruction

instruction cycle.....

this happens when the memory informs the cpu that it has completed read/write request; memory sends mfc - memory function complete signal
- situation in which memory & cpu are synch

types of control

considerations to hardwired control

microprogrammed consideration

considerations on microprogrammed

areas of devt for cpu design

what's the end result of these areas of devt in cpu design?

conduit for moving data between the processor and other sys components

speed of data processing inside the cpu

speed of data transfer to and from the cpu via the system bus

faster? internal or external?

how long will moore's law last?

what's the purpose of micron tech?
what is it in the first place?

material used for wire

what about this system on chip?

impact of system on a chip

fc-lga

going beyond the recommended clock frequency; done by
- system bus freq
- cpu freq multiplier
- change both

exceeds the normal speeds depending on processing reqs

cooling sys

multimedia processing

how to handle multimedia

single-cpu innovation

superscalar

current innovation today

intel cpu lineup

amd cpu lineup

combining several components in a single chip

intel cpu innovation

amd cpu innovation

advanced micro devices

POWER7+
8 cores
4.42 Ghz
4 threads per core
32 nm process

introduced TrueNorth- prototype chip that mimics 1 million human neurons and 256 million synapses

SPARC M6 Processor
-12 cores
8 threads per core
3.6 Ghz
48 MB L3 cache
28 nm process