Practice - Pipelining in Microarchitecture
Practice Questions
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What are the stages of pipelining?
💡 Hint: Think about the order of execution for an instruction.
What is the main advantage of pipelining?
💡 Hint: What happens to multiple instructions in a pipeline?
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the purpose of pipelining?
💡 Hint: Consider what happens to the speed of instruction processing.
True or False: Pipelining can reduce the time taken for each instruction.
💡 Hint: Think about what is being improved with pipelining.
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Challenge Problems
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A CPU has a 5-stage pipeline. If it takes 8 cycles to execute an instruction, how many cycles would it take to execute 5 instructions using pipelining assuming no hazards?
💡 Hint: Think about how stages overlap.
Explain how pipeline hazards might affect the execution of instructions and suggest two techniques to mitigate them.
💡 Hint: Think about methods processors use to handle dependencies.
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