Pipelining

Managing Pipelines

• compiler or programmer

• pipeline interlocking in the processor

• hardware instruction scheduling

Sequential (Motorola 56000)

Pipelined (Most conventional DSP processors)

Superscalar (Pentium, MIPS)

Superpipelined (CDC7600)

Fetch

Read

Execute

Decode

Fetch

Decode

Read

Execute

Fetch

Read

Execute

Decode

Fetch

Read

Execute

Decode

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