1. __________ memory consists of peripheral storage devices, such as disk and tape.
2. One byte equals __________ bits.
3. From a user’s point of view the two most important characteristics of memory are capacity and _____________.
4. The three performance parameters for memory are: access time, transfer rate, and _________.
5. _________ is a random access type of memory that enables one to make a comparison of desired bit locations within a word for a specified match, and to do this for all words simultaneously, thus retrieving a word based on a portion of its contents rather than its address.
6. The ________ rate is the rate at which data can be transferred into or out of a memory unit.
7. The most commonly used physical types of memory are: semiconductor memory, __________ memory (used for disk and tape), and optical and magneto-optical.
8. The three key characteristics of memory are capacity, access time, and _______.
9. External, nonvolatile memory is referred to as ___________ or auxiliary memory.
10. The cache consists of blocks called __________.
11. __________ computing deals with super computers and their software.
12. The Pentium 4 processor core consists of four major components: fetch/decode unit, out-of-order execution logic, memory subsystem, and __________.
13. The __________ units execute micro-operations, fetching the required data from the L1 data cache and temporarily storing results in registers.
14. __________ memory is a facility that allows programs to address memory from a logical point of view, without regard to the amount of main memory physically available.
15. For set-associative mapping the cache control logic interprets a memory address as three fields: Set, Word, and __________.
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