Practice - Review of Pipelining: Instruction Pipelining (as a form of parallelism)
Practice Questions
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Define instruction pipelining in one sentence.
💡 Hint: Think of how tasks can overlap in a factory setting.
What is a structural hazard?
💡 Hint: Consider resources like memory or execution units.
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Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What is the primary benefit of instruction pipelining?
💡 Hint: Think about the main goal of overlapping execution stages.
True or False: Pipelining eliminates all hazards.
💡 Hint: Consider how hazards may still affect pipeline performance.
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Challenge Problems
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Propose a design for a CPU that maximizes instruction throughput while minimizing hazards. Discuss your design choices.
💡 Hint: Focus on how hazards can be avoided while maintaining throughput.
Analyze a series of instruction executions in a pipelined system and identify the hazards. What strategies would you implement to maximize performance?
💡 Hint: Think about how to visualize the instruction sequence and dependencies.
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