Professional Documents
Culture Documents
lw $s2, 40($0)
and $s2,
$s3,$s2
4. Ben Bitdiddle is wondering whether he would be better off building the multicycle
processor instead of the single-cycle processor. For both designs, he plans on using a 65 nm
CMOS manufacturing process with the delays given in Table of the exercise 2. Help him
compare each processor’s execution time for 100 billion instructions. Assume that Tc for a
multicycle processor is given by the following equation:
5. Ben Bitdiddle needs to compare the pipelined processor performance to that of the single-
cycle and multicycle processors considered in the previous exercises. Most of the logic
delays were given in Table in exercise 2. The other element delays are 40 ps for an equality
comparator, 15 ps for an AND gate, 100 ps for a register file write, and 220 ps for a
memory write. Help Ben compare the execution time of 100 billion instructions. Please
suppose that average CPI for this processor is 1.15 and Tc can be calculated as: