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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tony Viola who wrote (61644)6/13/1999 3:03:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) of 1574005
 
Tony,

Everything is a tradeoff, still. If you go too far with the cycle time thing, i.e., building for Megahertz to the extreme, you can end up using a lot more logic, hence transistors, hence real estate. I'm sure Dirk got it balanced just right though, right?

Actually, in some ways the opposite is true. It requires a lot less logic to build a deep pipeline than short one. The reason being that deep pipelines are inherently simpler, and have fewer timing problems (if architected properly.)

Scumbria

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