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Assignment Questions

1. Explain the following questions for the first level of memory hierarchy.
a) Where can block be placed in upper level ? ( block replacement)
b) How is a block found if it is in the upper level?(block identification)
c) Which block should be replaced on a miss?(block replacement)
d) What happens on a write? (write strategy)

2. Examples with respect to cache performance given in text book ( page numbers- C-5, C-
15,C-17,C-18)
3. Explain in brief, the types of basic cache Optimization.
4. explain briefly about Virtual Memory.
5. Explain the basic schemes for enforcing coherence in a shared memory multiprocessor
system.
6. Explain the directory based coherence for a distributed memory multiprocessor system.

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