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Published inMay 2022
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Jim Ledin
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Jim Ledin is the CEO of Ledin Engineering, Inc. Jim is an expert in embedded software and hardware design and testing. He is also an expert in system cybersecurity assessment and penetration testing. He has a B.S. degree in aerospace engineering from Iowa State University and an M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Jim is a registered professional electrical engineer in California, a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and a Certified Penetration Tester (CPT).
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Exercises

  1. Consider a direct-mapped L1 I-cache of 32 KB. Each cache line consists of 64 bytes and the system address space is 4 GB. How many bits are in the cache tag? Which bit numbers (bit 0 is the least significant bit) are they within the address word?
  2. Consider an 8-way set associative L2 instruction and data cache of 256 KB, with 64 bytes in each cache line. How many sets are in this cache?
  3. A processor has a 4-stage pipeline with maximum delays of 0.8, 0.4, 0.6, and 0.3 nanoseconds in stages 1-4, respectively. If the first stage is replaced with two stages that have maximum delays of 0.5 and 0.3 nanoseconds respectively, how much will the processor clock speed increase in percentage terms?

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Jim Ledin

Jim Ledin is the CEO of Ledin Engineering, Inc. Jim is an expert in embedded software and hardware design and testing. He is also an expert in system cybersecurity assessment and penetration testing. He has a B.S. degree in aerospace engineering from Iowa State University and an M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Jim is a registered professional electrical engineer in California, a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and a Certified Penetration Tester (CPT).
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