A reduced hardware implementation of the classic five-stage RISC pipeline might use the EX stage hardware to

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A reduced hardware implementation of the classic five-stage RISC pipeline might use the EX stage hardware to perform a branch instruction comparison and then not actually deliver the branch target PC to the IF stage until the clock cycle in which the branch instruction reaches the MEM stage. Control hazard stalls can be reduced by resolving branch instructions in ID, but improving performance in one respect may reduce performance in other circumstances. Write a small snippet of code in which calculating the branch in the ID stage causes a data hazard, even with data forwarding.

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Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach

ISBN: 978-8178672663

5th edition

Authors: John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson

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