Practice - Form of Parallelism
Practice Questions
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What are the five stages of pipelining?
💡 Hint: Think about the sequence of actions an instruction takes to be executed.
How does pipelining increase CPU throughput?
💡 Hint: Consider how an assembly line operates.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is pipelining in CPU architecture?
💡 Hint: Think of how tasks can overlap.
True or False: Structural hazards can occur when two instructions require the same hardware component.
💡 Hint: Consider sharing resources like a busy kitchen.
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Challenge Problems
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Analyze the performance impact of integrating a new instruction into a pipelined processor that requires a memory access at the same time as another instruction's memory fetch. Discuss how this may introduce structural hazards.
💡 Hint: Consider how this setup resembles a traffic jam.
Consider an execution scenario with multiple branches in a program. What techniques would best mitigate control hazards in pipelined execution, and how would each work?
💡 Hint: Think about the importance of estimating the future in planning.
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