architecture

Question 1

what are the benefits of harvard

Answer 1

harvard has a separate place for data and instructions,
harvard can implament piplining
more modern

Question 2

advantage of von neuman

Answer 2

easy to desgin

Question 3

what does risc do

Answer 3

provides a fairly small and basic instruction set where in every operation cycle only one value is fetched or stored from/to memory

Question 4

what does cisc do

Answer 4

one instruction can do an entire sequence of operations across multiple clock cycles

Question 5

whats a gpu

Answer 5

lots of processors which work in parallel making it very efficient at completing repetitive tasks

Question 6

whats parallel processing

Answer 6

program is broken into smaller programs which can be solved simultaneously and then combined together

Question 7

difference between von neu and harvard

Answer 7

Instructions and data have
separate memory/address spaces

Instructions and data have separate buses; (important)

Question 8

difference between risc and cisc

Answer 8

cisc is more expensive