14_Superscalar.ppt

William Stallings Computer Organization and Architecture7th Edition Chapter 14 Instruction Level Parallelism and Superscalar Processors What is Superscalar? Common instructions (arithmetic, load/store, conditional branch) can be initiated and executed independently Equally applicable to RISC CISC In practice usually RISC Why Superscalar? Most operations are on scalar quantities (see RISC notes) Improve these operations to get an overall improvement General Superscalar Organization Superpipelined Many pipeline stages need less than half a clock cycle Double internal clock speed gets two t