Mips architecture - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Give at least 2 examples of each design principle (and describe how it improves performance or reduces complexity.) - correct answer 1. Simplicity favours regularity 2. Make the common case fast 3. Smaller is faster 4. Good design demands good compromises DP1: Simplicity Favors Regularity - correct answer Implementation of instructions decoding is fast because of the regularity of the MIPS instruct...

CIS 480/580 Computer Architecture, Spring 2021 Project 1 & 2 – MIPS Assembler 1. Objectives This project is designed to help students to understand the RISC architecture (MIPS) and its instruction set and assembly. 2. Goals Your team (2 persons) will build an MIPS assembler for a subset of MIPS instructions in C. This assembler will read a simple MIPS program and generate an MIPS machine code output file. 3. Specification Project 2 is the extension of Project 1 by including branch and...

MIPS Test UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers What is the architecture of a processor? - CORRECT ANSWER- D. a description of the basic components of a processor chip and of its basic operations What language allows the programmer to program the processor at the architectural level? - CORRECT ANSWER- A. assembly language What is the machine cycle? - CORRECT ANSWER- C. A machine cycle is the process through which one machine instruction is executed.

mnemonic correct answers first part of assembly instruction i.e. add, addi..etc Design principles for MIPS Assembly correct answers 1. Simplicity favours regularity - Instructions with a consistent number of operands are easier to code and handle 2. Make the common case fast - MIPS only has simple and commonly used instructions 3. Smaller is faster (size of memory matters.) - reading from a small set of registers is faster 4. good design demands good compromise - MIPS make compromise...

A particular program takes 300 seconds total to run and it spends 200 seconds performing divides. Assume we can speed up the division operation. How much faster would divides need to execute to reduce the total program running time to 150 seconds? Is it possible to reduce running time to 75 seconds? - Answer- 4 times faster, No Which of the following are problems with using Millions of Instructions Per Second (MIPS for short) as a measure for comparing computers' performance? - Answer- While...

What does RISC stand for? A. Rapid Instruction Set Computer B. Redundant Instruction Symbolic Computer C. Reduced Instruction Set Computer D. Reduced Instruction Symbolic Computer - Answer- C Which one of the following is a principle of RISC? A. Flexible addressing modes B. Load-Store instruction Sets C. Multiple Instruction Lengths D. Large number of operations - Answer- B RISC incorporates several of the principles of the 8 Great Architecture ideas. One of them is that Make the...

CSC 230 - Test 1: Study Guide Exam Questions Correctly Solved. What are the seven great ideas? - CORRECT ANSWER - Use abstraction to simplify design - Make the common case fast - Performance via parallelism - Performance via pipelining - Performance via prediction - Hierarchy of memories - Dependability via redundancy What is Machine Language? - CORRECT ANSWER The alphabet of the machine's language is binary, which contains the digits 0 and 1. What are instructions? - CORRECT A...

What does RISC stand for? - correct answer Reduced Instruction Set Computer Which one of the following is a principle of RISC? - correct answer Load-store instruction sets RISC incorporates several of the principles of the 8 Great Architecture ideas. One of them is that Make the Common Case __________________. - correct answer Faster How many general ...

Architecture - correct answer a computer is a logical description of its components and its basic operations High level programming language - correct answer strong abstraction from the details of the computer low-level programming language - correct answer uses natural language elements, may be easier to use Do all processor chips have the same archi...

reduced instruction set computer (RISC) - correct answer a philosophy in the design of encoding paradigms that seeks to use simple instructions, optimized for speed, that are uniform in size microprocessor without interlocked pipeline stages (MIPS) - correct answer a reduced instruction set computer instruction set architecture, first introduced in 1981, that has been used as an elegant example of inst...