[Solved] CSE331 Homework 1

1. Assume that, today, a wafer containing 120 processor dies costs 10000$. The yield decreases by 10% at each year while the wafer cost also decreases by 20% at each year. Then, what will be the cost of a single chip manufacturing after 4 years? Show your computations. Edit: Assume, today, there is a yield of 80%.

2. A compiler designer wants to compare the performance of two different compilers he designed. The compilers are generating MIPS machine code from a C program. He compiles the same C program using the two compilers.

1. According to the tables below, find which compiler is better and by how many times it is better than the other?

1. What must be the clock speed of the processor so that the program compiled with the better compiler executes in 100ms?

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