Question
(a) Assume a computer has a maximum memory size of 4MB. What is essential address field width?
(b) Assume a computer has an opcode field of 9 bits. What is maximum number of instructions in its instruction set?
(c) If a computer has an average memory access time of 10 nsec, and average cache memory access time of 2 nsec, and cache hit rate is 50 percent, then what is the overall average access time?
(d) Imagine you have a list of 50 numbers, each of that takes 32 bits to store. The first number in the list is stored at memory address 80376210 in computer memory. What is the memory address of the first memory location after last number in the list?