Practice Structural Hazards (7.4.1) - Pipelining and Parallel Processing in Computer Architecture
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Structural Hazards

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Question 1 Easy

What is a structural hazard?

💡 Hint: Think about instruction execution and resource availability.

Question 2 Easy

Give an example of structural hazards.

💡 Hint: Consider what happens in a pipeline.

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Question 1

What causes structural hazards?

Data overflow
Insufficient hardware resources
Branch prediction

💡 Hint: Think about what resources are required during execution.

Question 2

True or False: Structural hazards can be completely eliminated.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider the complexity of hardware design.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Explain the impact of structural hazards on the execution time in pipelined processors. Provide examples from real-world applications.

💡 Hint: Think about the critical nature of execution time in competitive scenarios.

Challenge 2 Hard

Design a pipeline architecture that minimizes structural hazards. Discuss the advantages and potential trade-offs.

💡 Hint: Focus on balancing resource availability with system complexity.

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