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====== Pipelining ====== | ====== Pipelining ====== | ||
- | This lecture covers the design and implementation of the MIPS CPU using a pipeline. This implementation addresses the two main faults of the single-cycle CPU //not// by eliminating hardware redundancy but by allowing more than one instruction to execute at the same time thereby no hardware unit will be idle. The high latency of the single-cycle approach is also //not/ minimized but it is offset by high throughput. Stage balancing, pipeline structure, and hazard detection and avoidance are the key drivers of pipelining. | + | This lecture covers the design and implementation of the MIPS CPU using a pipeline. This implementation addresses the two main faults of the single-cycle CPU //not// by eliminating hardware redundancy but by allowing more than one instruction to execute at the same time thereby no hardware unit will be idle. The high latency of the single-cycle approach is also //not// minimized but it is offset by high throughput. Stage balancing, pipeline structure, and hazard detection and avoidance are the key drivers of pipelining. |
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+ | ===== To Do ===== | ||
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+ | * Read Sections 6.1 through 6.7 of the textbook. | ||
+ | * Do the pipeline exercises (in the Resources page). | ||
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