PART-A
1. What are the temporal and spatial localities of references?
2. Write the structure of memory hierarchy
3. What are the various memory technologies?
4. Differentiate SRAM from DRAM.
5. What is flash memory ?
6. Define − Rotational Latency
7. What is direct-mapped cache?
8. Consider a cache with 64 blocks and a block size of 16 bytes. To what block number
does byte address 1200 map?
9. How many total bits are required for a direct-mapped cache with 16 KB of
data and 4-word blocks, assuming a 32-bit address?
10. What are the writing strategies in cache memory?
11. What are the steps to be taken in an instruction cache miss?
12. Define – AMAT
13. What are the various block placement schemes in cache memory?
14. Define – MTTF and AFR
15. Define – Availability
16. What are the three ways to improve MTTF?
17. Define – TLB
18. What is meant by virtual memory?
19. Differentiate physical address from logical address.
20. What is meant by address mapping?
1. What are the temporal and spatial localities of references?
2. Write the structure of memory hierarchy
3. What are the various memory technologies?
4. Differentiate SRAM from DRAM.
5. What is flash memory ?
6. Define − Rotational Latency
7. What is direct-mapped cache?
8. Consider a cache with 64 blocks and a block size of 16 bytes. To what block number
does byte address 1200 map?
9. How many total bits are required for a direct-mapped cache with 16 KB of
data and 4-word blocks, assuming a 32-bit address?
10. What are the writing strategies in cache memory?
11. What are the steps to be taken in an instruction cache miss?
12. Define – AMAT
13. What are the various block placement schemes in cache memory?
14. Define – MTTF and AFR
15. Define – Availability
16. What are the three ways to improve MTTF?
17. Define – TLB
18. What is meant by virtual memory?
19. Differentiate physical address from logical address.
20. What is meant by address mapping?
