The Pentium 4 processor core consists of four major components: fetch/decode unit,
out-of-order execution logic, memory subsystem, and __________.
Opcodes are represented by abbreviations, called __________ that indicate the
operation.
There are four types of I/O commands that an I/O module may receive when it is
addressed by a processor: control, test, write, and _________.
The TI 8800 Software Development Board is a microprogrammable 32-bit computer
card.
Although a variety of different approaches to reduced instruction set architecture have
been taken, certain characteristics are common to all of them: register-to-register
operations, simple addressing modes, simple instruction formats, and __________.
A GPU uses a massively parallel ________ architecture to perform mainly
mathematical operations.
________ enables servers, remote storage, and other network devices to be attached in a
central fabric of switches and links, connecting up to 64,000 servers, storage systems,
and networking devices.
It is important to design compact, time-efficient techniques for microinstruction
branching.
In earlier computers the most common form of random-access storage for computer
main memory employed an array of doughnut-shaped ferromagnetic loops referred to as
__________.
In general, a decoder has n inputs and 2n outputs.
When the processor executes a process it automatically converts from logical to
physical address by adding the current starting location of the process, called its
__________, to each logical address.
Because of the inherent binary nature of digital computer components, all forms of data
within computers are represented by various binary codes.
The __________ units execute micro-operations, fetching the required data from the L1
data cache and temporarily storing results in registers.
A _________ is a competition of two or more instructions for the same resource at the
same time.
(2 x 10-1) + (5 x 10-2) + (6 x 10-3) represents the number _________.
There are three important groups of DLLPs used in managing a link: flow control
packets, _________________ , and TLP ACK and NAK packets.
The __________ approach involves the use of a microinstruction address that has
previously been saved in temporary storage within the control unit.
In an _________ system the user/programmer interacts directly with the computer,
usually through a keyboard/display terminal to request the execution of a job or to
perform a transaction.