Computer Science 324 Computer Architecture Mount Holyoke College Fall 2007

Agenda

• Announcements
• Pipelines
  • basics
  • hazards
  • delayed branching and branch prediction
  • designing a data path and control for pipelining

Lecture Assignment

Due at the start of class, Wednesday, December 5.

Turn in short answers to these questions. Please turn in a hard copy (typeset or handwritten are OK). We will discuss these questions during class, so no late submissions are accepted.

The readings for next time are P&H Sections 7.1-7.3.

• P&H Exercise 6.1
• P&H Exercise 6.4
• P&H Exercise 6.21
• P&H Exercise 6.22