Cycles Per Instruction (CPI)
Tag: cpi
Aliases: CPI, IPC inverse
Average cycles required per executed instruction. Iron-law factor; lower is better. Reciprocal of IPC.
Lecture references
- L01 · Intro — p.26
- L02 · Performance & Power — p.11 , p.12 , p.13 , p.14
- L03 · Pipelining — p.5 , p.17 , p.43
- L04 · Hazards — p.16 , p.18 , p.28 , p.30 , p.33 , p.40 , p.48 , p.52
- L05 · Scoreboarding — p.13