list of buzzwords for Exam 2
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TAGE
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BHR
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2-level adapative branch prediction
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Pattern history table
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GSHARE
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Branch Target Buffer(BTB)
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atomic unit of processing
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atomic unit of OS
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interrupt
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exception
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priority/privilege
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machine check
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interrupt masking
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interrupt latency
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page fault
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context switch
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RAM
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DASD
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CAM
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DRAM
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SRAM
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prefetching
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row buffer
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parity
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ecc
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checksum
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unaligned access
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interleave
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vector processing
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vector register
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bank
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memory rank
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pass transistor
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cray 1
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refresh
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row address
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column address
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row buffer
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page mode
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hamming distance
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linear feedback shift register
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shift register
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virtual memory
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frame
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page
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page fault
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thrashing 
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virtual address
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physical address
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PTE
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virtual address space
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page frame number
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TSS(Task States Segment)
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PFN
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reference bit
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TLB(translation look aside buffer)
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process control block
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linear address
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large page
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cache line (block)
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spatial locality
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direct-mapped cache
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cache hit/miss
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tag, index, offset bits
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set-associative cache
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associative access
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hit ratio
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fully-associative cache
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write back/write through
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eviction
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Pseudo-LRU replacement policy
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replacement policy
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I-Cache(Instruction Cache)
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D-Cache(Data Cache)
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unified L2 Cache
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multiple levels of caches
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Second level (L2) cache
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cold start effect
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virtually-indexed, virtually-tagged cache
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virtually-indexed, physically-tagged cache
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physically-indexed, physically-tagged cache
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allocate on write miss
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synchronous bus
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asynchronous bus
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handshaking
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bus cycle
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arbitration
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central arbitration
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distributed arbitration
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fixed point arithmetic
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binade
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2's compliment
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1's compliment
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Binary Coded Decimal(BCD)
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signed magnitude
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look ahead carry
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Booth's algorithm
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Chinese remainder theorem
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