Final Exam Review B. Ramamurthy

Date, Time and Place Date: Tuesday May 5, 2009 Time: AM Place: Filmore 170 Please bring pens, pencils, calculator with no prior stored data (we will check it.) You are allowed two A-4 (Copier paper size) sheets of any information you feel will be useful for answering the questions.

Reading material Chapter 5: Processor design: datapath and control design Chapter 4: Assessing and Understanding performance Chapter 6: Enhancing performance with pipelining Chapter 7: Cache for performance (exploiting memory hierarchy for performance) All the class notes Exercises at the end of the chapters

Specific Sections 4.1 – 4.3; example on page ; exercises we worked out in the class (see the list on lecture schedule) ; Class notes; we will review some exercises ; class notes; we will work some examples in class 7.1 – 7.3; class notes; we will work on exercises at the end of the chapterbi

Possible questions Performance evaluation: CPI, MIPS rating, clock rate comparison Single cycle datapath and control design Pipeline design : adding buffers, and control circuits for the buffer Branch prediction circuit: verilog design Cache design: organization (direct, associative); performance improvement

Format Word problems to math equations and evaluations Verilog design Adding buffer and digital circuits Multiple choice on datapath