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Computer Architecture (SYST 26671) Assignment 4 1. True or False? (5 marks) a) Pipelining is a computer architecture technique to improve performance b) Scalar processing can achieve performance of executing more than one instruction per clock cycle c) Superscalar processing uses ILP design concepts d) VLIW uses ILP design concepts e) EPIC uses ILP design concepts Express the following decimal values as IEEE 754 single precision values showing your work. (final output should be using little endian hex values). (9 marks) 2. a. 236.32102 b. 54325.167 c. 0.004235 Convert the following to packed & umpacked BCD values showing also number of bytes needed to store the numbers (6 marks) 3. a. 12344578 b. 3423788934 c. 23789 4. The "Intel IA-32" slides present an outline of the progression of Intel processors. As we know the 8086 processor is considered to be a 16-bit processor (5 marks) a) Which processor was Intel's first 32-bit processor? b) Which Intel processor first included the floating point unit within the chip? Which Intel processor was the first to achieve a scalar processing rate of one instruction per clock cycle (on average)? Which Intel processor was the first to achieve a superscalar processing rate of more than one instruction per clock cycle (on average)? c) d) e) The LA-32 Architecture implemented ILP Processing. True or False? 5. In the LA-32 architecture (5 marks), a) How many 32-bit registers exist? b) How many 16-bit segment registers exist? c) How many floating point registers exist? How big are they (number of bits)? d) How many SIMD registers exist? e) How big is the address bus? (number of bits)