3.5 - Pipeline Hazards
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Practice Questions
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Define a data hazard and give an example.
💡 Hint: Think about dependency between instructions.
What is a structural hazard?
💡 Hint: Consider hardware limitations.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What type of data hazard occurs when an instruction tries to write before an earlier instruction has read it?
💡 Hint: Focus on the order of operations in instructions.
True or False: Control hazards can lead to pipeline stalls.
💡 Hint: Think about what happens during branching.
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Challenge Problems
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Given two instructions: I1 writes data to register R1 and I2 reads from R1 immediately. Explain how this execution may be impacted by a data hazard.
💡 Hint: Consider the timing of the operations in pipeline execution.
Analyze a scenario where multiple instructions in a pipeline attempt to utilize the same ALU. What type of hazard could occur and how might you resolve it?
💡 Hint: Reflect on how resource allocation plays a role in pipelining.
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