Practice Data Hazards And Ilp (5.4) - Exploiting Instruction-Level Parallelism

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Question 1.
What does RAW stand for?
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Think about the order of reading and writing.
Question 2.
Name one technique to resolve data hazards.
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Think of how data can be passed quickly.
3Question 3.
What type of hazard occurs when an instruction tries to read data before it is written?
- RAW
- WAW
- WAR
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Recall the sequence of instruction execution.
4Question 4.
True or False: Stall cycles are introduced to speed up instruction execution.
- True
- False
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Think about the purpose of stalling in the pipeline.
Question 5.
Given the instruction sequence: I1: Write R1, I2: Read R1, I3: Write R1. Identify hazards and propose solutions.
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Break down the steps and assess dependencies.
Question 6.
Create an example of a WAR hazard and explain how register renaming resolves the conflict.
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Visualize how changing the register helps.

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