nnik
Newbie
Hwy guys, im trying to wrap my hear around this topic. Suppose we have a communication channel that connects a processor to main memory (DRAM) and to peripheral devices supports data transfers of two different sizes. 8 or 256 Bytes. Each transfer occupies the channel for a time period of 12ns for THE beginning plus 0.5 for every extra byte of data transferred. If this channel continuously transfers blocks of 8 Bytes stucback to back at the same time, then what is the thoughput of the channel, in MBytes/s? Will we account the starup cost or just measure the differencial cost and say we have 8bytes/0.5ns = 16 GBytes/s?