Practice Summary Of Key Concepts (7.12) - Pipelining and Parallel Processing in Computer Architecture
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Summary of Key Concepts

Practice - Summary of Key Concepts

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What are the five stages of pipelining?

💡 Hint: Think about the acronym for instruction stages.

Question 2 Easy

Define parallel processing in your own words.

💡 Hint: Focus on the simultaneous aspect of execution.

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Question 1

What is the main benefit of pipelining?

More efficient memory usage
Increased instruction throughput
Enhanced security

💡 Hint: Remember how stages overlap in execution.

Question 2

True or False: Parallel processing uses a single core to execute multiple tasks.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about the definition of parallelism.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Given a set of instructions with dependencies, determine how many cycles are required for pipelined execution.

💡 Hint: Consider how each instruction's dependency affects the next.

Challenge 2 Hard

In a multicore system running a simulation, analyze how the choice between ILP and TLP would impact performance based on the workload nature.

💡 Hint: Think about dependencies between tasks and instructions.

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