Amachine cycle consists of a. instruction cycle and execution cycle b. alu and cu c. hardware and software d. system software and application software e. none of the above

Write an assembly program with the following specifications. a). in the main block, you should have two registers r4 and r5. they should be checked in an infinite loop. if r4 is greater than r5, then the greater subroutine will be called. if r4 is less than r5, then the less subroutine will be called. if r4 equals r5, then no operations will be done

Consider a direct-mapped cache with 216 words in main memory. the cache has 16 blocks of 8 words each. it is a word-addressable computer (rather than a byte-addressable computer which we normally discuss). (a) how many blocks of main memory are there? (b) what is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache, that is, what are the sizes of the tag, cache block, and block offset fields (if they apply)? (c) to which cache block will the memory reference db6316 map?

The computers in the sales department did not have enough data storage capacity to contain all the information the department needed to store, and it was taking a long time for team members to access the data they needed. to fix the problem, the technician installed new, larger hard drives on all the computers.