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The most important factors of the microprocessors' development are improvement in the performance and increasing the speed of a microprocessor. Increasing the performance and the speed of a microprocessor majorly depends on the increasing of the number of transistors on a chip, which causes rapidly growing of microprocessor design complexity. The number of transistors should be doubled every 18-24 months related to Moore's Law. The doubling of transistor count affects increasing of the microprocessor design complexities (such as structural, hardware), raising power dissipation, and cost of design effort.This article presents a proposal to discuss the matter of scaling structural and hardware complexities of a microprocessor design related to Moore's Law. The structural and hardware complexities measurements are presented based on the discussion.

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The increasing of the number of transistors on a chip, which plays the main role in improvement in the performance and increasing the speed of a microprocessor, causes rapidly increasing of microprocessor design complexity. Based on Moore's Law the number of transistors should be doubled every 24 months. The doubling of transistor count affects increasing of microprocessor design complexity, power dissipation, and cost of design effort. This article presents a proposal to discuss the matter of scaling hardware complexity of a microprocessor design related to Moore's Law. Based on the discussion a hardware complexity measure is presented.