CSC159 – COMPUTER ORGANIZATION

EXERCISE 6
CHAPTER 3 and 4
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1. Briefly describe the machine cycle.

2. Illustrate the steps involved in the machine cycle.

3. Differentiate between pipelining and superscalar processing

4. State THREE(3) characteristics that distinguish RISC designs from CISC designs.

5. Construct a Three-Way memory interleaving with its own MAR and MDR.

6. Explain how to READ and WRITE data from a memory.

7. What is MAR and MDR register.

8. Given a computer’s memory specification is 256MB RAM. Calculate the:

a. memory capacity in bytes

b. address size
c. largest address
d. calculate the total cell in memory