The Design Team for a Simple, Single-Issue Processor Is Choosing

question 4

Essay

The design team for a simple, single-issue processor is choosing between a pipelined or non-pipelined implementation. Here are some design parameters for the two possibilities: (a) For a program with 20% ALU instructions, 10% control instructions and 75% memory instructions, which design will be faster? Give a quantitative CPI average for each case.
(b)
For a program with 80% ALU instructions, 10% control instructions and 10% memory instructions, which design will be faster? Give a quantitative CPI average for each case

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