Practice - Structural Hazards: Resource Conflicts
Practice Questions
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What is a structural hazard?
💡 Hint: Think about situations that might block resources.
Give an example of a resource conflict in a processor.
💡 Hint: Consider memory operations.
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What does a structural hazard involve?
💡 Hint: Think about the meaning of 'structural' in CPU design.
True or False: Stalling the pipeline improves the throughput.
💡 Hint: Consider how continuous instruction flow should ideally work.
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Design a pipelined architecture that minimizes structural hazards. Discuss the resources and their organization.
💡 Hint: Consider how many resources must be available to allow for overlapping access.
Evaluate the impact of pipeline delays on overall processor performance in a given scenario of resource conflict.
💡 Hint: Examine scheduling and conflict scenarios in a pipeline setup.
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