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_______ law assumes a program in which a fraction (1- f )of the execution time
involves code that is inherently serial and a fraction f that involves code that is infinitely
parallelizable with no scheduling overhead.
The two distinctive types of flash memory are designated as NOR and ______ .
It is easier to design in hardware than in firmware.
The SCU uses hybrid MESI and _________ protocols to maintain coherency between
the individual L1 data caches and the L2 cache.
The five defined states for a process are: new, ready, waiting, halted, and ________.
The exception modes have full access to system resources and can change modes freely.
Year by year the cost of computer systems continues to rise.
In a __________ implementation the control unit is essentially a state machine circuit
and its input logic signals are transformed into a set of output logic signals, which are
the control signals.
Introduced by IBM with its System/360, the _________ is a set of computers offered
with different price and performance characteristics that presents the same architecture
to the user.
Each process is represented in the OS by a ___________, which typically contains
identifier, state, priority, program counter, memory pointers, context data, I/O status
information, and accounting information.
The fundamental building block of all digital logic circuits is the _______.
Three common forms of read-mostly memory are: EPROM, EEPROM, and _________.
The equivalent GPU hardware component for a block is the CUDA multiprocessor
(SM).
The _________ of a processor generates the control signals that cause each
micro-operation to be executed.
The principal price to pay for variable-length instructions is an increase in the
complexity of the processor.
ARM processors support data types of 8 (byte), 16 (halfword), and 32 (word) bits in
length.
NOR memory is better suited for external memory such as USB flash drives and
memory cards.
The three common formulas used for calculating a mean are arithmetic, harmonic, and
__________ .
The grid and the block need to have the same dimensions.
With ____________ any number of instructions may be in the execution stage at any
one time, up to the maximum degree of machine parallelism across all functional units.
