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Which arbitration method provides fairness by ensuring no single device monopolizes the bus?
Which arbitration method provides fairness by ensuring no single device monopolizes the bus?
- Round-robin arbitration (correct)
- Daisy chaining
- Distributed arbitration with priority
- Centralized arbitration
Which of the following is a primary goal of interleaved memory organization?
Which of the following is a primary goal of interleaved memory organization?
- Reducing overall memory capacity
- Lowering the cost per bit of memory
- Increasing the effective memory bandwidth (correct)
- Simplifying memory addressing schemes
What is the main purpose of latency hiding techniques in shared memory systems?
What is the main purpose of latency hiding techniques in shared memory systems?
- To increase the physical distance between memory modules and processors.
- To reduce the impact of memory access time on overall system performance. (correct)
- To simplify the memory allocation process.
- To eliminate the need for cache memory.
Which cache addressing model uses virtual addresses for both cache indexing and tagging?
Which cache addressing model uses virtual addresses for both cache indexing and tagging?
What is a primary advantage of using a backplane bus system?
What is a primary advantage of using a backplane bus system?
Which memory consistency model provides the weakest guarantees about the order in which writes from different processors become visible to each other?
Which memory consistency model provides the weakest guarantees about the order in which writes from different processors become visible to each other?
In cache design, what is the purpose of implementing set-associativity?
In cache design, what is the purpose of implementing set-associativity?
What aspect of bus transactions does arbitration primarily manage?
What aspect of bus transactions does arbitration primarily manage?
How does the IEEE Futurebus+ standard primarily enhance bus performance compared to earlier standards?
How does the IEEE Futurebus+ standard primarily enhance bus performance compared to earlier standards?
Which memory allocation scheme is most prone to external fragmentation?
Which memory allocation scheme is most prone to external fragmentation?
Flashcards
Backplane Bus
Backplane Bus
A high-speed internal connection that connects processors, memory, and peripherals within a computer.
Bus Timing Protocols
Bus Timing Protocols
Rules governing how devices on a bus communicate, including signal timing and data transfer methods.
Bus Arbitration
Bus Arbitration
A method of resolving conflicts when multiple devices try to access the same bus simultaneously.
Bus Transaction
Bus Transaction
A sequence of operations to perform a specific task or data transfer on a bus.
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Interrupt
Interrupt
A signal that informs the processor of an event requiring immediate attention.
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IEEE Futurebus
IEEE Futurebus
A proposed standard for advanced synchronous parallel bus architecture aimed at improving system performance.
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Cache Organization
Cache Organization
The arrangement and structure of the cache memory in a computer system, affecting its performance.
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Interleaved Memory
Interleaved Memory
Techniques to organize memory into banks so that multiple memory accesses can occur simultaneously.
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Latency Hiding
Latency Hiding
Techniques used to reduce the impact of memory latency on system performance.
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Weak Consistency Models
Weak Consistency Models
Memory consistency models that don't require all writes to be immediately visible to all processors.
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- Advanced memory technology encompasses bus systems, cache organizations, and shared memory organizations.
Bus Systems
- Backplane bus specifications define the physical and electrical characteristics of the bus.
- Addressing protocols determine how devices on the bus are identified.
- Timing protocols govern the sequence of signals for data transfer, crucial for synchronizing communication between devices.
- Bus arbitration manages which device gets to control the bus, preventing conflicts when multiple devices want to transmit data simultaneously.
- Bus transactions are the complete sequence of operations required to perform a read or write operation.
- Interrupt mechanisms allow devices to signal the processor for attention, enabling timely responses to events.
- IEEE Futurebus was an advanced bus standard aimed at high-performance computing, though not widely adopted, it influenced later bus designs.
Cache Organizations
- Cache addressing models dictate how the cache memory is organized and accessed, including direct-mapped, set-associative, and fully associative caches.
- Cache performance is affected by factors like hit rate, miss penalty, and cache size, influencing overall system speed.
- Cache performance issues include strategies to reduce miss rates, such as increasing cache size or using more sophisticated replacement policies.
Shared Memory Organizations
- Interleaved memory organization distributes memory addresses across multiple memory modules to increase bandwidth.
- Bandwidth is a measure of the data transfer rate, and is critical for high-performance systems.
- Fault tolerance ensures the system continues to operate correctly even if some memory modules fail.
- Memory allocation schemes manage how memory is assigned to different processes or threads, impacting performance and resource utilization.
- Sequential consistency models guarantee that the result of any execution is the same as if the operations of all processors were executed in some sequential order.
- Weak consistency models allow for more performance optimizations at the cost of weaker guarantees about the order in which memory operations appear to execute.
- Latency hiding techniques, such as prefetching and out-of-order execution, reduce the impact of memory access delays on performance.
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