Two new implementations of the LC2K2 have been proposed. Implementation 1 Clock period of 10ns Cycles...

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Two new implementations of the LC2K2 have been proposed. Implementation 1 Clock period of 10ns Cycles per instruction: Instruction ADD, NOR, JALR BEQ NOOP Implementation 2 Clock period of 5ns • Cycles per instruction: Cycles 4 cycles 4 cycles 2 cycles ADD BEQ JALR SW ADD, NOR, LW, SW, JALR BEQ NOOP, HALT Instruction HALT LW SW NOR NOOP LW HALT 8 cycles 10 cycles 1 cycle Your benchmark consists of 1,000,000 instructions and has the following instruction frequency: 20% 20% 10% 10% a) What is the CPI for implementation 1 on this benchmark? [3] b) What is the CPI for implementation 2 on this benchmark? [3] Cycles 3 cycles 5 cycles 4 cycles 20% 10% 10% 0% c) Which implementation is faster on this benchmark? Briefly explain your answer. [6] Two new implementations of the LC2K2 have been proposed. Implementation 1 Clock period of 10ns Cycles per instruction: Instruction ADD, NOR, JALR BEQ NOOP Implementation 2 Clock period of 5ns • Cycles per instruction: Cycles 4 cycles 4 cycles 2 cycles ADD BEQ JALR SW ADD, NOR, LW, SW, JALR BEQ NOOP, HALT Instruction HALT LW SW NOR NOOP LW HALT 8 cycles 10 cycles 1 cycle Your benchmark consists of 1,000,000 instructions and has the following instruction frequency: 20% 20% 10% 10% a) What is the CPI for implementation 1 on this benchmark? [3] b) What is the CPI for implementation 2 on this benchmark? [3] Cycles 3 cycles 5 cycles 4 cycles 20% 10% 10% 0% c) Which implementation is faster on this benchmark? Briefly explain your answer. [6]

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To answer these questions we need to calculate the average cycles per instruction CPI for each implementation using the benchmark data provided The CP... View the full answer