What is the advantage of integrating the instruction memory

What is the advantage of integrating the instruction memory and data memory into a single hardware unit in the multi-cycle design? (B) Do you suggest integrating the instruction memory and data memory into a single hardware unit in the pipelined design? Why or why not?

Solution

8 (A) Advantage of integrating the instruction memory and data memory into a single hardware unit in the multi-cycle design is reuse of fucntional units like ALU, memory etc.

8 (B) It is not wise to integrate the instruction memory and data memory into a single hardware unit in the pipelined design because pipeline deisgn is able to partitioned into separate functional unit only because it has separate Instruction memory and data memory unit and allow us to directly implement various stages of a instruction in pipeline.