CSC 205 midterm exam

An abstract interface between the hardware and the lowest-level software that encompasses all the information necessary to write a machine language program that will run correctly, including instructions, registers, memory access, I/O, and so on.

• cache

• ABI

• Instruction Set Architecture

Average number of clock cycles per instruction for a program or program fragment.

• Instruction count

• Clock cycles per instruction (CPI)

• Performance period

• Clock period

Chip manufacturing process begins with a silicon _____.

• wafer

• die

• ingot

The reason for the recent slowing of clock rate improvement known a the power wall is that we have run into the practical power limit for cooling.

• true

• false

_____ memory has the longest access time.

• DRAM

• Flash

• Disk

A display technology using a thin layer of liquid polymers that can be used to transmit or block light according to whether a charge is applied.

• raster refresh buffer

• Liquid crystal display

• pixel

• coordinate

A form of nonvolatile secondary memory composed of rotating platters coated with a magnetic recording material

• Cache

• Magnetic Disk

• Flash Memory

A terabyte is one _____ bytes.

• trillion

• billion

• million

• google

An LCD doesn't actually generate light, but passes or blocks light

• true

• false

A formular for division:

________  = Quotent x Divisor + Remainder

• Dividend

• Remainder

• 0

• Divisor