1. MIPS Microarchitecture Pipelined Processor
Lecture 21
Digital Design and Computer Architecture
Harris & Harris
Morgan Kaufmann / Elsevier, 2007

2. Review: Single-Cycle Processor

3. Review: Multicycle Processor

4. Pipeline Processor Activity
Stage 2 - Candy Fetch:
Fetch two candybars. Pass them to Stage 3 (the “Execute” stage).
Stage 3 – Execute:
Keep one candybar and pass the other on to Stage 4, the “Writeback” stage.
Stage 4 - Candy “Writeback”:
Throw the candybar to the right side of the room. Do not hurt anyone.

5. Single-Cycle vs Pipelined Performance

6. Pipelining Abstraction

7. Single-Cycle and Pipeline Datapath

8. Corrected Pipeline Datapath

9. Pipeline Processor with Control