Hardware architecture interview questions

Are you familiar with the term MESI? Are you familiar with the term snooping? Describe a finite state machine that will detect three consecutive coin tosses (of one coin) that results in heads. In what cases do you need to double clock a signal before presenting it to a synchronous state machine? You have a driver that drives a long signal & connects to an input device. At the input device there is either overshoot, undershoot or signal threshold violations, what can be done to correct this problem? For a single computer processor computer system, what is the purpose of a processor cache and describe its operation? Explain the operation considering a two processor computer system with a cache for each processor. What are the main issues associated with multiprocessor...

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