Describe context switching in lay terms and identify the process information that needs to be saved, changed, or updated when context switching takes place.

Consider a direct-mapped cache with 216 words in main memory. the cache has 16 blocks of 8 words each. it is a word-addressable computer (rather than a byte-addressable computer which we normally discuss). (a) how many blocks of main memory are there? (b) what is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache, that is, what are the sizes of the tag, cache block, and block offset fields (if they apply)? (c) to which cache block will the memory reference db6316 map?

Suppose you have 9 coins and one of them is heavier than others. other 8 coins weight equally. you are also given a balance. develop and algorithm to determine the heavy coin using only two measurements with the of the balance. clearly write your algorithm in the form of a pseudocode using the similar notation that we have used in the class to represent sorting algorithms

Consider the following function main: int main() { int alpha[20]; int beta[20]; int matrix[10][4]; . . } a. write the definition of the function inputarray that prompts the user to input 20 numbers and stores the numbers into alpha. b. write the definition of the function doublearray that initializes the elements of beta to two times the corresponding elements in alpha. make sure that you prevent the function from modifying the elements of alpha. c. write the definition of the function copyalphabeta that stores alpha into the first five rows of matrix and beta into the last five rows of matrix. make sure that you prevent the function from modifying the elements of alpha and beta. d. write the definition of the function printarray that prints any onedimensional array of type int. print 15 elements per line. e. write a c11 program that tests the function main and the functions discussed in parts a through d. (add additional functions, such as printing a two-dimensional array, as needed.)