System/ROM

A way to describe microoperations capable of being performed by the data flow (data registers, data buses, functional units) at the register transfer level of design (RT)

Also describes conditional information in the system which cause operations to come about

Register Transfer Notation is A “shorthand” notation for …..

The general format of an RTN statement:

The possible locations in which transfer of information occurs are

data flow

Arithmetic operations, Logic operations, Shifts operations are ….

have multiple processors

When these processors all reside on a single chip, the term multicore computer is used, and each processing unit (consisting of a control unit, ALU, registers, and perhaps cache) is called a core

A prominent feature of contemporary computers is the use of multiple layers of memory, called….. , between the processor and main memory

cache memory is smaller and faster than main memory and is used to speed up memory access

by placing in the cache data from main memory, that is likely to be used in the near future

A greater performance improvement may be obtained by using multiple levels of cache

level 3 L3 cache closest to the core

, level n is …. and …..than level n + 1

in 1946, von Neumann and his colleagues began the design of a new stored program computer, referred to as the IAS computer, at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies. The IAS computer, although not completed until 1952, is the prototype of all subsequent general-purpose computers

The memory of the IAS consists of …. storage locations, called words, of … binary digits (bits) each Both data and instructions are stored the

Word formats. Each number is represented by a … sign bit and a … bit value

A word may alternatively contain …. bit instructions

Each instruction consisting of …. bit operation code (opcode) and a …. bit address designating one of the words in memory