CS/ECE 752 Advanced Computer Architecture I Spring 2006 Section 1 Instructor Mark D. Hill and T. A. Ahmed Ghanem URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill/cs752/Spring2006/

Homework 0 // Due at Lecture Fri Jan 20

Problem 1

Fill out a 4 by 6 index card with the following information: Be sure to leave a 2" by 2" space in the upper right hand corner for your photograph (see below).

• Name (last name, first name)
• E-Mail Address
• Year in School
• Major Field
• Final Degree Goal (e.g., Ph.D.)
• Previous Education (degrees, institutions)
• Previous Computer Architecture Courses
• Previous Computer Science Courses
• Relevant Work Experience
• Outside Interests

Problem 2

Supply a 2" by 2" (passport size) photograph of yourself. Be sure to write your name on the back. Attach it to the card for problem 1 with a staple or tape (not a paper clip). The photos will not be returned.

Problem 3 on CS/ECE 552 Material (Not Graded)

Hennessey & Patterson Problem A.2 (pp. A-81-82).

Problem 4 on CS/ECE 552 Material (Not Graded)

Consider a computer with 64-bit virtual address, 16-Kbyte pages, and 48-bit physical addresses. Assume that it performs address translation logically before accessing a four-way set-associative cache with 64-byte blocks.

• For a 32-Kbyte cache, how many bits get stored in the address tag? Why?
• What is the largest cache size that still permits cache indexing to be done with bits from the untranslated page offset? Why?