Consider
an I/O bus
that can transfer
5 bytes of
data in one
bus cycle and keeping in mind
that the maximum frequency of the bus is 40 MHz. Suppose that a
designer is considering to attach the
following two components to this bus:
Hard drive, with a transfer rate of 80 Mbytes/sec and Video
card, with a transfer rate of 140 Mbytes/sec. What will be the implications?
Q2.
10 marks
Assume that the FALCONA is operating at a clock frequency
of 1 GHz. Also, assume that the subi and the jnz instructions take 5 and
6 clock periods, respectively,
to execute. Since these two instructions execute 65,535 times each, so you need
to compute the execution time of this loop.
