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11computer Architecture Questions

This document contains 24 technical interview questions related to computer architecture and organization. The questions cover topics such as direct memory access (DMA), pipelining, superscalar and VLIW machines, caches, cache coherency, write-back and write-through caches, pipelining hazards, pipeline stages, branch prediction, data hazards, cache set calculation, cache block finding, scoreboard analysis, miss penalty reduction, cache performance improvement, addressing modes, computer arithmetic, hardware and software interrupts, bus contention, aliasing, latches vs flip-flops, race around condition, cache purpose and usage, and memory management types.

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11computer Architecture Questions

This document contains 24 technical interview questions related to computer architecture and organization. The questions cover topics such as direct memory access (DMA), pipelining, superscalar and VLIW machines, caches, cache coherency, write-back and write-through caches, pipelining hazards, pipeline stages, branch prediction, data hazards, cache set calculation, cache block finding, scoreboard analysis, miss penalty reduction, cache performance improvement, addressing modes, computer arithmetic, hardware and software interrupts, bus contention, aliasing, latches vs flip-flops, race around condition, cache purpose and usage, and memory management types.

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Computer Architecture 400 Technical Interview Questions

1. Explain what is DMA? 2. What is pipelining? 3. What are superscalar machines and vliw machines? 4. What is cache? 5. What is cache coherency and how is it eliminated? 6. What is write back and write through caches? 7. What are different pipelining hazards and how are they eliminated. 8. What are different stages of a pipe? 9. Explain more about branch prediction in controlling the control hazards 10. Give examples of data hazards with pseudo codes. 11. How do you calculate the number of sets given its way and size in a cache? 12. How is a block found in a cache? 13. Scoreboard analysis. 14. What is miss penalty and give your own ideas to eliminate it. 15. How do you improve the cache performance. 16. Different addressing modes. 17. Computer arithmetic with two's complements. 18. About hardware and software interrupts. 19. What is bus contention and how do you eliminate it. 20. What is aliasing?

21) What is the difference between a latch and a flip flop? 22) What is the race around condition? How can it be overcome? 23) What is the purpose of cache? How is it used? 24) What are the types of memory management?

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