Practice Benefits Of Pipelining (7.3) - Pipelining and Parallel Processing in Computer Architecture
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Benefits of Pipelining

Practice - Benefits of Pipelining

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Question 1 Easy

What is pipelining?

💡 Hint: Think about how multiple instructions can be worked on at once.

Question 2 Easy

What does increased throughput mean?

💡 Hint: Consider how efficiently a factory can produce products.

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Question 1

What does pipelining primarily increase?

Cost of CPU
Instruction Throughput
Idle Time

💡 Hint: Think about how factories work on multiple products simultaneously.

Question 2

True or False: Pipelining simplifies CPU design.

True
False

💡 Hint: Remember the challenges that arise with increased efficiency.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Design a hypothetical CPU instruction sequence that illustrates the benefits of pipelining.

💡 Hint: Consider how division, multiplication, and addition could overlap in processing.

Challenge 2 Hard

Evaluate the impact of pipeline hazards on instruction throughput in a given scenario.

💡 Hint: Look for dependencies in your instruction flow.

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