The Essentials Of Computer Organization And Architecture 4th Edition by Linda Null,Julia Lobur

Exercise 24

You and a colleague are designing a brand new microprocessor architecture. Your colleague wants the processor to support 509 different instructions. You do not agree, and would like to have many fewer instructions. Outline the argument for a position paper to present to the management team that will make the final decision. Try to anticipate the argument that could be made to support the opposing viewpoint.