Practice - Motivation - 7.4.1
Practice Questions
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What does DMA stand for?
💡 Hint: Think about data transfer methods.
How does DMA benefit CPU performance?
💡 Hint: Remember how the CPU's time gets freed up.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the primary role of DMA?
💡 Hint: Think about what DMA does independently of the CPU.
True or False: DMA reduces CPU overhead during data transfers.
💡 Hint: Consider whether CPU efficiency improves with DMA.
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Challenge Problems
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Consider a system currently transferring large video files without DMA. What steps would you recommend implementing DMA, and how would it change the system’s performance?
💡 Hint: Think about the performance upgrades that DMA can bring.
If a dual-core processor is handling simultaneous DMA requests from two different I/O devices, describe how it would manage these requests and what advantages it offers over single-threaded processing.
💡 Hint: Consider how multiple cores influence data handling capabilities.
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