Q. Control hazards can cause a greater performance loss for MIPS pipeline than do

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Q. The sum of the contents of the base register and the sign-extended offset is used as a memory address, the sum is known as

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Q. The presence of antidependences and output dependences, leads to

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Q. The process of letting an instruction move from the instruction decode stage into the execution stage of this pipeline is usually called

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Q. To solve the problems with a simple hardware technique called forwarding, also known as

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Q. Every MIPS instruction can be implemented in at most

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Q. Code containing redundant loads, stores, and other operations that might be eliminated by an optimizer, is a

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Q. Delays arising from the use of a load result 1 or 2 cycles after the loads, refers as

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Q. Situations that prevent the next instruction in the instruction stream, from executing during its designated clock cycle are known as

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Q. The simplest dynamic branch-prediction scheme is a

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Q. When an instruction is guaranteed to complete, it is called

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Q. An implementation technique whereby multiple instructions are overlapped in execution, refers to

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Q. Grouping the 16 functional units together into four groups and supplying a set of buses, called

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Q. Example: the number of cars per hour and is determined by how often a completed car exits the assembly line, shows the

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Q. To improve the ability of the compiler to fill branch delay slots, most processors with conditional branches have introduced a

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Q. Pipelining that allows to achieve higher clock rates by decomposing the five-stage integer pipeline into eight stages, is refered as

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Q. When all instructions take the same number of cycles, which must also equal the number of pipeline stages the process is known as

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Q. Exceptions that are caused by some hardware event that is not under the control of the user program, refered as

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Q. Hazards in pipelines can make it necessary to

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Q. Indicating which of the four steps the instruction is in, is provided by

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