Ep 085: Introduction to the CPU Pipeline

Since Charles Babbage first described his Analytical Engine in 1837, computers have been performing the cycles of instruction execution concurrently to obtain better performance. In this video, we examine the basics of CPU pipelining.

Take aways: At the completion of this lesson, each student should be able to:
• describe how pipelining improves performance,
• compute the number of cycles used to execute n instructions in non-pipelined and pipelined architectures,
• compute the ideal speed-up of a pipelined architecture over a non-pipelined, and
• identify instructions that cause a pipeline flush.

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[hamida.]

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[blakealex]

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