Description
For this chapter, do ONE of the following exercises in Chapter 1 of Hennessy and Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 6th edition, pages 62 – 68.
• Exercise 1.2: Chip costs and fabrication
• Exercise 1.5: Cell phone performance and battery life
• Exercise 1.12: Quad-core with encryption
• Exercise 1.15: Amdahl’s Law
You may work on this assignment as individuals or in two-person teams. See below for team information.
You may consult with your classmates or others on the general nature of the assignment, but you
must prepare and write your solution yourself, in your own words. Your explanation of your answer is
at least as important as the quantitative result.
If you do not have time to finish this assignment please turn in what you have completed, along with
a statement of how much time you spent on the assignment and an explanation of where you had
difficulty.
Deliverables
Submit your written solution to Canvas. This assignment is named Homework #1.
The overall value of this assignment is 20 points.
Homework Teams
If you wish to work as a two-person team on the homework, you must register your team by sending email to gr-cs4515-staff@wpi.edu at least one day in advance. Either team member may submit an
assignment to Canvas on behalf of the team. Submit only one copy of the assignment. Be sure that both
team members’ names are on all files.
(If for some assignment, team members do not work together, please send e-mail to gr-cs4515-
staff@wpi.edu to have your team dissolved for that assignment. Then each member must submit an
independent assignment with only his or her name on the assignment.)
