Suppose that you are designing a game system that responds to players\' pressing

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Suppose that you are designing a game system that responds to players' pressing buttons and toggling joysticks. The prototype system is failing to react in time to these input events, causing noticeable annoyance to the gamers. You have calculated that you need to improve overall system performance by 50%. This is to say that the entire system needs to be 50% faster than it is now. You know that these I/O events account for 75% of the system workload. You figure that a new I/O interface card should do the trick. If the system's existing I/O card runs at 10 kHz (pulses per second), what is the speed of the I/O card that you need to order from the supplier?

Explanation / Answer

Let System speed =x (for now)

Since the Systems need to be faster by 50% than it is now.

=> Required System Speed = 3x/2

Response of I/O card on System Speed = 0.75

But required = 0.75(3/2)

It needs to be faster by 0.75/2 = 37.5%.

So the new Speed of I/O card required = 10khz * 1.375 = 13.75kh.

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