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CS161 - Design and Architecture of Computer Systems
CS161 - Design and Architecture of Computer Systems
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Computer Science
Undergraduate 4
12/03/2009

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CPU execution time equals?
Definition
CPU Clock Cycles * Clock cycle time OR
CPU Clock Cycles / Clock rate
Term
Clock rate equals?
Definition
1 / Clock cycle time
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CPU Time equals?
Definition
(Instruction count * CPI) / (Clock rate)
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Amdahl's law?
Definition
Execution time after improvement = Execution time affected by improvement / Amount of improvement + Execution time unaffected
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MIPS equals?
Definition
Instruction count / (Execution time * 10^6)
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MFLOPS equals?
Definition
percentage of Float point operations of the total instructions * MIPS
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Strength reduction is?
Definition
The process where the compiler will replace a multiply operation with a shift operation.
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