6.4.3 - Pipelining
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Practice Questions
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What is pipelining?
💡 Hint: Think about breaking down a task.
Name one component used in pipelining.
💡 Hint: Consider storing data in stages.
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What is the primary advantage of pipelining?
💡 Hint: Consider how tasks can be done at once.
Pipelining always increases power consumption. True or False?
💡 Hint: Think about added components.
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Consider a circuit with a long combinational path that requires three registers to implement pipelining. What would you expect the impact on area and power consumption to be, and how could you mitigate negative effects?
💡 Hint: Think about arrangement and design choices.
Design a pipelined architecture for a simple arithmetic operation (like addition) using two stages. Describe potential data hazards and solutions.
💡 Hint: Consider how data moves between the stages.
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