Computer Architecture, 5th Edition

C Pipelining: Basic and Intermediate Concepts

It is quite a three-pipe problem.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

C.1 Introduction C-2

C.2 The Major Hurdle of Pipelining—Pipeline Hazards C-11

C.3 How Is Pipelining Implemented? C-30

C.4 What Makes Pipelining Hard to Implement? C-43

C.5 Extending the MIPS Pipeline to Handle Multicycle Operations C-51

C.6 Putting It All Together: The MIPS R4000 Pipeline C-61

C.7 Crosscutting Issues C-70

C.8 Fallacies and Pitfalls C-80

C.9 Concluding Remarks C-81

C.10 Historical Perspective and References C-81

Updated Exercises by Diana Franklin C-82

C.1 Introduction

Many readers of this text will have covered the basics of pipelining in another text (such as our more basic text Computer ...