Книга: Introduction to Microprocessors and Microcontrollers

Quiz time 14

In each case, choose the best option.

1 Compared with the Pentium 4, the Athlon XP design has:

(a) faster FSB, running at 533 MHz.

(b) the same speed of FSB.

(c) slower FSB, running at 333 MHz.

(d) faster FSB, running at 2.8 GHz.

2 As the Pentium 4 and the Athlon XP are both using 0.13 micron technology:

(a) it does NOT imply any other similarities between the designs.

(b) they will both run at the same clock speed.

(c) they will have the same number of pins.

(d) the cache sizes are equal.

3 The three floating point execution units in the Athlon XP simultaneously handle store and load, multiply functions and:

(a) SIMD functions.

(b) add functions.

(c) divide functions.

(d) 3D NOW! functions.

4 When Branch prediction is correct it:

(a) increases the overall speed of running the program.

(b) increases the length of the pipeline.

(c) decreases the clock speed.

(d) prevents overheating of the microprocessor.

5 The Athlon Instruction cache has a capacity of:

(a) 256 kB.

(b) 32 bits.

(c) 64 kB.

(d) 384 MB.

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