large transistor chip study

A study of Single-Chip Processor/Cache organisations for Large Number
of transistors.
a) Having a large transistor budget does not necessarily lead to improved performance.
b)very imp to have single cycle access data cache. As long as L1 is single-cycle L2 may
have a access time of 4 cycles without sacrificing a great deal of performance.
c) 4-8 million Transistors - single processor config best.
8-16 million - dual processor best. in fact with 16 million dual proc config can achieve twice
the throughput of single proc system with same transistor budget.
the 2-4 proc systems also have improved throughput but point of diminishing returns is
quickly reached.