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Database System Concepts

7th Edition

ISBN:9780078022159

Author:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Publisher:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Chapter1: Introduction

Section: Chapter Questions

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There are two common methods for implementing delays:

1. Use external hardware that acts as a timer, typically interfaced to using interrupts which we will cover later.

2. Write a delay loop.

For this homework, you will use the latter approach. Consider the following MIPS fragment:

addi $t1 , $zero ,N # N is some positive immediate

add $t1,$t1,$t1

L2: beq $t1,$zero,End

lw $s1,0($s2)

sub $s1,$s1,$t1

add $s1,$s1,$s1

sw $s1,0($t2)

addi $t1,$t1,−1

j L2

End: lw $s1,0($s1)

lw $s1 ,0($s1)

You are running this on a 4GHz CPU, which requires 1 CPI for R-type arithmetic instructions, 2 CPI for immediate arithmetic instructions, 3 CPI for jumps, 4 CPI for memory instructions, and 5 CPI for branches.

1. Determine an appropriate value of N for this fragment to run in as close to 50 μs. as possible.

2. What is the largest delay possible using this code fragment (on our 32-bit MIPS)? For purposes of this problem, please assume that MIPS does not allow arithmetic overflows (even though this assumption isn’t quite correct).

Make sure to show your work and draw a box around your final answers.

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