Question: Consider two machines one with and one without division hardware. Consider a program which involves 40% of the computations to be division, 20% multiplication and

Consider two machines one with and one without division hardware. Consider a program which involves 40% of the computations to be division, 20% multiplication and 40% the rest. Machine 1 with division hardware can perform division quite fast. The number of cycles for each class of instruction is: Division (8 cycles), multiply (6 cycles) and rest (4 cycles). Machine 2 has no division hardware and thus division has to be implemented (by repeated subtraction) using software macros and thus requires 32 cycles. Both machines are operational at 500MHz. Find the MIPS ratings for each of the machines.

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