Practice - Example Calculation of CPI
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Practice Questions
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Define CPI in your own words.
💡 Hint: Think about it in terms of executing instructions.
What does a miss rate indicate?
💡 Hint: What happens if you can't find something in memory?
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is CPI?
💡 Hint: Remember, it's related to how instructions are executed.
True or False: A higher miss rate generally improves CPU performance.
💡 Hint: Think about the impact on waiting time.
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Challenge Problems
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Consider a system with a clock rate of 1 GHz and a base CPI of 2. If the miss rate is 5% with a miss penalty of 40 cycles, calculate the effective CPI.
💡 Hint: Use the formula relating base CPI to miss rate.
If a CPU has a miss rate of 20% and a miss penalty of 100 cycles, how does this impact the effective CPI if the base CPI is 1.5?
💡 Hint: Remember to multiply the miss rate with the miss penalty.
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