Practice - Instruction Pipelining - 7.2
Practice Questions
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What are the five stages of instruction pipelining?
💡 Hint: Think about the acronym IFIDEXWB.
What does the Execute stage do?
💡 Hint: Consider the meaning of execution in general context.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the purpose of instruction pipelining?
💡 Hint: Focus on what pipelining specifically aims to achieve.
True or False: Pipelining ensures that all instructions are executed in a strict sequential order.
💡 Hint: Consider the meaning of overlapping processes.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a pipelined architecture with at least three instructions and describe the flow through each stage, mentioning potential hazards.
💡 Hint: Think about how different instructions can impact each other in a pipeline.
Evaluate how increasing clock speeds can affect pipelining and the associated hazards.
💡 Hint: Consider how faster cycles can affect timing with respect to dependencies.
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