2008 Paper 8 Question 5 Comparative Architectures (a) Why is it important to concentrate on improving the common case (e.g. the most commonly used operations and […]
2007 Paper 7 Question 1 Comparative Architectures (a) Why is branch prediction so important in modern processors? [2 marks] (b) Why are saturating, two-bit counters used? […]
2007 Paper 8 Question 3 Comparative Architectures (a) Why is multi-processing more important than ever? [3 marks] (b) Name the two basic forms of parallelism that […]
2006 Paper 7 Question 1 Comparative Architectures (a) Give three fundamental differences between RISC and CISC processor design and explain why RISC might lead to improved […]