The following slides introduce the method of pipelining for processor design.

Slide 13.1: A pipelining example
Slide 13.2: MIPS instruction execution steps
Slide 13.3: Serial execution versus pipelining
Slide 13.4: The single-cycle datapath
Slide 13.5: A pipelined datapath
Slide 13.6: A corrected pipelined datapath
Slide 13.7: Graphically representing pipelines
Slide 13.8: Control signals
Slide 13.9: Control signals (cont.)
Slide 13.10: Pipelined control




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