计算机组成与结构体系英文课件：Chapter6 Pipelining.pdfVIP

该文档是极速PDF编辑器生成， 如果想去掉该提示,请访问并下载： / Chapter 6 Pipelining Contents  6.1 Basic Concept of Pipelining  6.2 Pipeline Organization  6.3 Pipeline Issues  6.4 Data Dependencies  6.5 Memory Delays  6.6 Branch Delays  6.7 Resource Limitations  6.9 Superscalar Operation 2 6.1 Basic Concept of Pipelining  Circuit technology and hardware arrangement influence the speed of execution for programs.  All computer units benefit from faster circuits.  Pipelining involves arranging the hardware to perform multiple operations simultaneously.  Similar to assembly line where product moves through stations that perform specific tasks.  Same total time for each item, but overlapped. 3 Pipelining in a Computer  Focus on pipelining of instruction execution.  Multistage datapath in Chapter 5 consists of: Fetch, Decode, Compute, Memory, Write.  Instructions fetched executed one at a time with only one stage active in any cycle.  With pipelining, multiple stages are active simultaneously for different instructions.  Still 5 cycles to execute one instruction, but rate is 1 per cycle. 4 I Fetch j +3 Fetch I j +4 I Fetch j +5 I