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Asoftware company hired ray, a college graduate to work in their development team. ray is assigned to work in the coding phase of a project. what happens during the coding phase of a software development project? a. the customer receives a working model of the software. b. developers convert the program design into code. c. developers gather requirements directly from the stakeholders. d. testing teams check the product for quality.

When making changes to optimize part of a processor, it is often the case that speeding up one type of instruction comes at the cost of slowing down something else. for example, if we put in a complicated fast floating-point unit, that takes space, and something might have to be moved farther away from the middle to accommodate it, adding an extra cycle in delay to reach that unit. the basic amdahl's law equation does not take into account this trade-off. a. if the new fast floating-point unit speeds up floating-point operations by, on average, 2ă—, and floating-point operations take 20% of the original program's execution time, what is the overall speedup (ignoring the penalty to any other instructions)? b. now assume that speeding up the floating-point unit slowed down data cache accesses, resulting in a 1.5ă— slowdown (or 2/3 speedup). data cache accesses consume 10% of the execution time. what is the overall speedup now? c. after implementing the new floating-point operations, what percentage of execution time is spent on floating-point operations? what percentage is spent on data cache accesses?

Johnson enterprises uses a computer to handle its sales invoices. lately, business has been so good that it takes an extra 3 hours per night, plus every third saturday, to keep up with the volume of sales invoices. management is considering updating its computer with a faster model that would eliminate all of the overtime processing.