Final Exam Topics

The Final will be in SH 113 on Monday, May 2, at 10:30 AM

Administrative Notes

Topics

• Everything from the Midterm
• Data Integrity

  Be familiar with

  ECC and CRC

  Be able to

  Construct and check ECCs and CRCs

• Cache Consistency and Memory Models

  Be familiar with

  Sequential, weak, release consistency

  Be able to

  Determine whether a sequence of transactions is valid under a give model

  Be familiar with

  MESI, Alewife

  Be able to

  Trace coherence transactions on bus or in network.

• Networks and Routing

  Be familiar with

  Network topologies and routing

  Be able to

  apply static and turn-based routing for store-and-forward and wormhole routing.