Practice - Efficient Design Strategies: The Solutions
Practice Questions
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Define an address conflict.
💡 Hint: Think about multiple entities trying to use the same identifier in a system.
What is the primary goal of address decoding?
💡 Hint: Consider how street addresses work in a city.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What happens during an address conflict?
💡 Hint: Consider how a mix-up between two similar entities could lead to incorrect outcomes.
True or False: Memory-Mapped I/O reserves memory for I/O devices.
💡 Hint: Think about how memory space can be utilized.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a system with 10 peripherals. Outline how you would assign unique addresses and what strategies you’d incorporate to prevent address conflicts.
💡 Hint: Think about how you would distribute tasks among a large group to maximize efficiency.
Explain how the choice between I/O-mapped I/O and memory-mapped I/O could impact system performance in case of a bus contention among multiple devices.
💡 Hint: Consider bottlenecks and how they affect overall throughput in any system.
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