You are on a team helping design the new Platinum V® processor for AmDel Corporation. Consider the following design issues:

a. Your design team is considering a superscalar versus superpipeline approach to the design. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each option? What technological factors would tend to influence this choice one way or the other?

b. Your design team has allocated the silicon area for most of the integrated circuit and has narrowed the design options to two choices: one with 32 registers and a 512-KB on-chip cache and one with 512 registers but only a 128-KB on-chip cache. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each option? What other factors might influence your choice?