Practice - Data Hazards
Practice Questions
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What does RAW stand for?
💡 Hint: What do you do after writing data?
Name one way to handle data hazards.
💡 Hint: Think about techniques to reduce waiting.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is a data hazard?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens when instructions are executed out of order.
True or False? Forwarding helps avoid data hazards by delaying instruction execution.
💡 Hint: Consider how forwarding functions in a fast-paced instruction cycle.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a simple pipeline architecture with three stages and illustrate a sequence of instructions that could lead to all three types of data hazards.
💡 Hint: Think about common operations and how instructions depend on each other.
Evaluate a pipelined architecture under conditions of multiple simultaneous instruction executions and identify any potential data hazards. Propose optimizations.
💡 Hint: Consider how each instruction interacts and relies on the previous ones, and propose frameworks like forwarding to alleviate issues.
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