

MIPS:One alternative to time as the metric is MIPS(Million Instruction Per Second) T = (N x S) / R This is often referred to as the basic performance equation. If the clock cycle rate is R cycles per second, the processor time is given by N denotes number of machine Instructions, Suppose that the average number of basic steps needed to execute one machine instruction is S, where each basic step is completed in one clock cycle.

The term Clock Cycles Per Instruction Which is the average number of clock cycles each instruction takes to execute, is often abbreviated as CPI.ħ.State and explain the performance equation? Clock cycle :The time for one clock period, usually of the processor clock, which runs at a constant rate.Ĭlock period :The length of each clock cycle.
