Computer Organization & Architecture
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Booth's Algorithm for GATE: Signed Multiplication Traced Step by Step
Trace Booth multiplication through A, Q and Q-1, preserve the sign during every shift, and count additions and subtractions from bit transitions.
Cache Write Policies and Multi-Level Cache Numericals for GATE: AMAT Solved Step by Step
Write-through vs write-back traffic arithmetic and the hierarchical vs simultaneous AMAT formulas, derived once and drilled on L1/L2 GATE-pattern numericals solved step by step.
IBPS SO IT Officer Computer Organization: professional knowledge topics
IBPS SO IT Officer Computer Organization: number systems, Boolean logic, CPU and memory organization, addressing modes and I/O for the Mains PK paper.
Addressing modes and instruction formats in computer architecture explained
Addressing modes and instruction formats explained: immediate, direct, indirect, indexed and PC-relative effective addresses, and 0/1/2/3-address machines.
Floating point representation: IEEE 754 format and arithmetic explained
Computers store real numbers in a fixed number of bits, so they cannot store every real number exactly. Floating point is the scheme that packs a huge range of magnitudes into 32 or 64 bits by trading away some precision, and IEEE 754 is the standard almost every processor follows. This topic is a dependable source of encoding and precision questions, and every one of them rests on the same field layout and normalization rule. Let us encode a number by hand and see exactly wh
Pipelining in Computer Architecture: the 5-stage pipeline, speedup, and hazards
Pipelining in computer architecture: the 5-stage pipeline, speedup and throughput formulas, CPI, structural, data and control hazards, and forwarding.
Cache memory: mapping techniques and hit ratio, with the exam angle
Cache memory explained: the memory hierarchy, locality, direct, associative and set-associative mapping, plus a worked hit-ratio and access-time example.