How to improve the CPI and Speed up factor in CPU-OS simulator?
To be able to improve CPI and the speed-up factor you need to enable the pipeline. The programmer can help improve CPI but it is best to leave that to an optimising compiler and clever CPU architecture. The simulator's built-in compiler offers some help in reducing the CPI, for example loop unrolling, constant folding, identifying code dependencies, etc. In pipelined architecture, the goal is to reduce/prevent hazards and the above optimisations help do that. In addition, the pipeline has a means of forwarding operands, i.e. prior to previous instructions updating registers in a later stage, that contributes to reducing the CPI. There is also the technique of jump predictions. All these are available in the simulator which you should explore.