Exam is 4 question

asnwer all 3 from part 1
pick one from part 2

Part 1 has the following 3 topics:
- Tomasulo vs. Forwarding
- prefetch... look under miss penalty
- BTB

Part 2: choose 1 from 3
- memory architecture
- ILP : instruction level paralellsism differ between super scalar and out ofo rder execution. what role does the reorder bufffer play in speculative execution
- multi core & cache memory

They will be recall/explanation type question

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