MICROARCHITECTURAL TECHNIQUES OF ADVANCED PROCESSORS 15-19
15.2|Replication – The Superscalar Concept
In Section 15.1, it was mentioned that the second method of improving performance
by achieving a low CPI is ‘replication’. What exactly can be replicated? There are two
possibilities. In one case, the entire processor pipeline or parts of it are replicated. This
makes a processor a superscalar processor. There is another type of replication, and
that is the idea behind ‘multicore’ processors, where there are multiple processor cores
residing on the same chip. Recollect that a ‘core’ is the computing engine of a processor
that includes the ...
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