5.11 Processor Architecture 9/24/96
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?
Instructor:
ltaber@pima.edu
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