Practice - Pipeline Hazards
Practice Questions
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Define data hazards.
💡 Hint: Think about instruction execution dependencies.
What technique can help mitigate data hazards?
💡 Hint: It involves passing data without writing back.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What type of hazard occurs when an instruction depends on the result of a previous instruction?
💡 Hint: Think about dependencies.
True or False: Control hazards only occur in pipelined processors.
💡 Hint: Consider where branch instructions are used.
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Challenge Problems
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Describe how the implementation of a branch predictor could improve the performance of a pipelined processor. Discuss potential limitations.
💡 Hint: Consider the balance between speed and accuracy.
Evaluate the effectiveness of using both forwarding and stalling in a pipelined architecture. When would each approach be more suitable?
💡 Hint: Analyze performance impacts of each method under various conditions.
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