Assume that we make an enhancement to a computer that improves some mode of execution by a factor of 10. Enhanced mode is used 50% of the time, measured as a percentage of the execution time when the enhanced mode is in use. Recall that Amdahl’s law depends on the fraction of the original, unenhanced execution time that could make use of enhanced mode. Thus, we cannot directly use this 50% measurement to compute speedup with Amdahl’s law. a. What is the speedup we have obtained from fast mode?
b. What percentage of the original execution time has been converted to fast mode?

Signal sets company contracts to deliver one hundred 52-inch plasma high-definition television sets to a new retail customer, tuner tv store, on may 1, with payment to be made on delivery. signal tenders delivery in its own truck. tuner's manager notices that some of the cartons have scrape marks. tuner's owner phones signal's office and asks whether the sets might have been damaged as they were being loaded. signal assures tuner that the sets are in perfect condition. tuner tenders signal a check, which signal refuses, claiming that the first delivery to new customers is always for cash. tuner promises to pay the cash within two days. signal leaves the sets with tuner, which stores them in its warehouse pending its "grand opening sale" on may 15. two days later, tuner's stocker opens some of the cartons and discovers that a number of the sets are damaged beyond ordinary repair. signal claims tuner has accepted the sets and is in breach by not paying on delivery. will signal succeed on these claims? explain.

Using least squares fitting, you are to fit the data sets to the following models and solve for the parameters ai , where i is the index of the parameter. the input/output data for the systems are linked in the bblearn site. for each of the systems use matlab to plot the supplied data vs. the model fit on one plot. include your code in the solutions. (a) linear fit "lineardata.mat" y=a1x^3 + a2x^2 + a3x + a4 (b) plant fit "plantdata.mat g(s) = a1/(s + a2)

Write a program in plp assembly that counts up by one starting from zero (or one) inside a loop and writes this value to the leds every time the value is increased. the memory address of the leds is 0xf0200000. the table below shows the meaning and an example usage of the instructions covered in the video, plp instructions for project 1. instruction example usage meaning load immediate li $t0, 8 register $t0 is set to the value, 8. store word sw $t2, 0($t1) the value in register $t1 is used as the memory address. the value in register $t2 is copied into this memory address. add addiu $t4, $t3, 29 register $t4 is assigned the sum of 29 and the value in register $t3. jump j your_label_name the program jumps to the line following the label, "your_label_name: ". label your label name: defines a label called "your_label_name: " that can be jumped to