Practice - Computer Organization and Architecture: A Pedagogical Aspect
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Practice Questions
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What does TLB stand for?
💡 Hint: Think about the role of TLB in memory translation.
Define a cache hit.
💡 Hint: Is accessing data fast or slow if you have a cache hit?
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Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What happens during a TLB miss?
💡 Hint: Think about where the CPU goes to find missing information.
True or False: Virtually indexed caches avoid TLB access on cache hits.
💡 Hint: What is the main benefit of accessing cache directly via virtual addresses?
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Challenge Problems
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In an architecture using virtually indexed, physically tagged caches, if two virtual addresses point to the same physical address due to aliasing, how could this impact program execution?
💡 Hint: Consider what happens if two programs share the same data space.
Design a strategy to mitigate TLB misses in a high-performance computing environment.
💡 Hint: Think about hardware improvements or algorithms to optimize memory access.
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