Question 1 (5 Marks)
a) Let’s say, a system’s performance is enhanced and it is now 10 times faster than the original system. However, the system is usable only 60% of the time. Determine the overall performance gain by the enhancement using Amdhal’s law (3 marks).

b) Why is it predicted that Moore’s law will be dead by the end of 2022? Do you agree or not with this prediction? Justify your answers (2 marks).

a) Demonstrate the Fetch-Execute cycle using a micro-program (3 marks).

b) The following figure shows the memory addresses and contents (not in a contiguous format). A program is fetching values from the memory and storing them in the accumulator register (once at a time). Fill up the following table using the figure (2 marks).