Practice Pipeline Hazards (7.4) - Pipelining and Parallel Processing in Computer Architecture
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Pipeline Hazards

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is a structural hazard?

💡 Hint: Think about hardware resource usage.

Question 2 Easy

Name one solution to data hazards.

💡 Hint: It involves accessing data before the write-back stage.

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Question 1

What causes a structural hazard in a pipeline?

A conflict when multiple instructions require the same hardware
An instruction waiting for data from a previous one
A jump in the instruction flow

💡 Hint: Think about resource conflicts.

Question 2

True or False: Data hazards can be resolved by inserting pipeline stalls.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider what happens when instructions depend on each other.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Analyze a code snippet with various dependencies and identify structural, data, and control hazards while providing solutions for each.

💡 Hint: Trace each instruction's flow and dependencies.

Challenge 2 Hard

Describe a real-world application where pipeline hazards may affect performance, detailing how specific solutions could be implemented.

💡 Hint: Think of concurrent processing scenarios.

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