Question

Interconnect efficiency is a function of ____ being transferred.

(a) number of data blocks

(b) size of data blocks

(c) type of data blocks

(d) accuracy of data blocks

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Answer 1

Right choice is (b) size of data blocks

Explanation: Interconnect efficiency is a function of size of data blocks being transferred. Most buses exhibit low throughput for smaller block size. In addition to block size, features such as Direct Memory Access overhead, handshaking mechanism affect the overall throughput.