Computer Organization

Exam 3

• For all implementations (single-cycle, multicycle, pipelined)
  • Advantages and disadvantages
  • How to compute clock cycle time
  • How to compute CPI
  • Evaluate performance
• Single-cycle processor
  • Control unit
  • Functional unit use by instruction class
• Multicycle processor
  • Instruction execution steps
  • State machines
  • Exceptions
• Pipelined processor
  • Operation of a pipeline
  • Instruction execution time vs. instruction throughput
  • Pipeline stages
  • Hazards
  • Forwarding
  • Stalls
  • Techniques for handling branch hazards