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Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture, 5th Edition
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Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture, 5th Edition

by Linda Null, Julia Lobur
March 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
744 pages
26h 5m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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REVIEW OF ESSENTIAL TERMS AND CONCEPTS

  1. Which is faster, SRAM or DRAM?

  2. What are the advantages of using DRAM for main memory?

  3. Name three different applications where ROMs are often used.

  4. Explain the concept of a memory hierarchy. Why did your authors choose to represent it as a pyramid?

  5. Explain the concept of locality of reference, and state its importance to memory systems.

  6. What are the three forms of locality?

  7. Give two noncomputer examples of the concept of cache.

  8. Which of L1 or L2 cache is faster? Which is smaller? Why is it smaller?

  9. Cache is accessed by its _______, whereas main memory is accessed by its _______.

  10. What are the three fields in a direct-mapped cache address? How are they used to access a word located in cache?

  11. How does associative ...

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ISBN: 9781284123043