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5.11 Processor Architecture 9/24/96
How do manufactures choose to build a specific type of computer?
- Market analysis. What can sell.
- Program analysis. What do current programs do.
- Measurment of current machines. Analysis of number of
times each instruction is executed.
- Instruction sequence analysis. What instructions follow
one another.
- What can be done to increase instruction execution speed?
- Historic customer base. Need to run past programs. Existing
customers are the easiest to sell to.
- Competitor migration. What customers can be moved
from other systems.
- Growth potential. What are the limitations to this design.
- What is the maximum amout of memory that can be addresses.
- What can be done to make it faster? At what cost?
- What can be done to make it cheaper? At what disadvantage?
- Can a range of processors be built?
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