Practice Step 4: Energy-efficient Processor Architectures (5.6) - Energy-Efficient Components and Architectures in CMOS and FinFETs

Practice: Step 4: Energy-Efficient Processor Architectures

Lesson 5.6Energy-Efficient Components and Architectures in CMOS and FinFETs

Practise this section

10 questions

Flashcard drill
5 cards from this section. Quick, good the night before a test.
Exercise
6 questions · about 4 min · pass mark 70%. Hints available.
Sign up to start the exercise
Quiz
4 questions · about 3 min · pass mark 70%. Hints available.
Sign up to start the quiz

6 sample questions

Question 1.
What does RISC stand for?
Show hintHide hint
Think about instruction sets and computing.
Question 2.
What is the benefit of Harvard architecture?
Show hintHide hint
Consider how data and instructions are fetched.
3Question 3.
What does RISC stand for?
- Random Instruction Set Computer
- Reduced Instruction Set Computing
- Regulated Instruction Set Computing
Show hintHide hint
Think about the aim of RISC architectures.
4Question 4.
In-order execution is more energy-efficient than out-of-order execution because it:
- True
- False
Show hintHide hint
Consider processing complexity.
Question 5.
Evaluate how the adoption of RISC architectures in mobile devices has influenced their battery life compared to previous architectures.
Show hintHide hint
Consider the role of instruction simplicity.
Question 6.
Design a hybrid architecture incorporating both RISC and Harvard principles. Discuss how it would manage power and efficiency draws from both approaches.
Show hintHide hint
Think about merging the advantages of each method.

6 more questions in this section. Enroll free to practise them all.