Assignment-1

1. Processor Used In My Laptop

Processor which is used in my Laptop is Intel Core i5 8250U
1.6 GHz 8th generation (Turbo up to 3.4GHz).
Processor: A microprocessor is a computer processor that
incorporates the functions of a central processing unit on a
single integrated circuit (IC),or at most a few integrated
circuits. The microprocessor is a multipurpose, clock
driven, register based, digital integrated circuit that
accepts binary data as input, processes it according
to instructions stored in its memory and provides results as
output. Microprocessors contain both combinational
logic and sequential digital logic. Microprocessors operate
on numbers and symbols represented in the binary number
system.
Microarchitecture: In computer
engineering, microarchitecture, also called computer
organization and sometimes abbreviated as µarch or uarch,
is the way a given instruction set architecture (ISA) is
implemented in a particular processor.
A given ISA may be implemented with different
microarchitectures; implementations may vary due to
different goals of a given design or due to shifts in
technology.
 A multi-core processor is a computer
processor integrated circuit with two or more
separate processing units, called cores, each of which reads
and executes program instructions, as if the computer had
several processors. The instructions are ordinary CPU
instructions (such as add, move data, and branch) but the
single processor can run instructions on separate cores at
the same time, increasing overall speed for programs that
support multithreading or other parallel
computing techniques. Manufacturers typically integrate the
cores onto a single integrated circuit die(known as a chip
multiprocessor or CMP) or onto multiple dies in a single chip
package. The microprocessors currently used in almost all
personal computers are multi-core. A multi-core processor
implements multiprocessing in a single physical package.
Designers may couple cores in a multi-core device tightly or
loosely. For example, cores may or may not share caches,
and they may implement message passing or shared-
memory inter-core communication methods.
Common network topologies to interconnect cores
include bus, ring, two-dimensional mesh, and crossbar.
Homogeneous multi-core systems include only identical
cores; heterogeneous multi-core systems have cores that
are not identical (e.g. big. LITTLE have heterogeneous cores
that share the same instruction set, while AMD Accelerated
Processing Units have cores that don't even share the same
instruction set). Just as with single-processor systems, cores
in multi-core systems may implement architectures such
as VLIW, superscalar, vector, or multithreading.

Cache memory size:

Intel's Core i5-8250U review:

Base clock speed Cache size
i5-8250U CPU 1.6GHz 6MB

Associativity :

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Nehalem Architecture: