Tutorial – 3 –
Aug, 2020
Programme : B.Tech – Semester : Interim 2021-2022
Course : Computer Architecture and Organization Code : CSE2003
Faculty : Dr. Trapti Sharma Slot/Class No. : A11
Time : 30min Max. Marks : 10
Answer all the
Questions
Q. No. Question Description Mark
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1 Consider a memory system that takes 20 ns to service the access of a 2
single 32-bit word. Calculate latency and bandwidth.
2
A computer employs RAM chips of 512*8 and ROM chips of 2048*8.
2
The computer system needs 8K bytes of RAM, 32K bytes of ROM.
How many RAM and ROM chips are needed.
3 Consider a 2-level memory hierarchy consisting of a cache memory M1 and
the main memory M2. Suppose that the cache is 6 times faster than the main
memory, and the cache can be used 90% of the time. How much speedup do 2
we gain by using the cache?
4
A CPU has a 16 bit address for memory addressing: (a) What is the memory
addressability of the CPU ? (b) If the memory has a total capacity of 2 MB, what is
2
the word length of the memory?
5 2
Consider a system having three levels of memory, a cache memory, a semiconductor
main memory, and a magnetic disk secondary memory, if the access times of the
memories are 10 ns, 50 ns, and 1 us, respectively. The cache hit ratio is 80% and the
main memory hit ratio is 85%. Compute the average access time for this system.