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CS 152, Spring 2010 Section 2. Andrew Waterman. University of California, Berkeley. Agenda. Instructional account forms In-class activity Q&A on HW1, Lab 1. Instructional Account Forms.
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CS 152, Spring 2010Section 2 Andrew Waterman University of California, Berkeley
Agenda Instructional account forms In-class activity Q&A on HW1, Lab 1
Instructional Account Forms • Once you have gotten your instructional account form, please fill out the sheet being passed around with the following info: • Full name • @berkeley.edu email address • Instructional login
Assignment Short worksheet on Iron Law and variable-length instruction encoding
Assignment Problem 1 • Option 1: Improve FPSQR • What is the overall CPI reduction? • (frequency of FPSQR)*(CPI reduction for FPSQR) • (0.02)*(20-2) = 0.36 • Option 2: Improve other FP ops • What is the overall CPI reduction? • (frequency of FP ops)*(CPI reduction for FP ops) • (0.25)*(4.0-2.5) = 0.375 • Option 2 reduces CPI further
Assignment Problem 2A • 90.5% of branches fit within 8 offset bits • (24-8 bits saved)*(0.905) = 14.48 bits saved • 99.5% of branches fit within 16 offset bits • (24-16 bits saved)*(0.995-0.905) = 0.72 bits saved • This encoding saves 15.2 bits/branch (38%) • Branches are 10% of program • Overall code size reduction is 3.8%
Assignment Problem 2B We reduced branch length by 15.2 bits Adding 2 bits reduces the benefit by 13% One alternative: use different opcodes to indicate length (if opcode space isn’t full) Another: Use offsets of length 6,14,22 instead of 8,16,24
Assignment Problem 2C Most of the benefit was obtained by adding only a single new branch offset size (8 bits) Adding more branch types would meet diminishing returns
Assignment Problem 2D • Variable-length instructions add complexity • If looking at arbitrary code, hard to know where instruction boundaries lie • Must decode instructions serially • Hard to implement processors that execute more than one instruction per cycle • Instructions can cross cache line/page boundaries
Questions? HW Lab This in-class assignment