Introduction
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Pipeline stages
Figure 1-2 shows:
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the two Fetch stages
•
a Decode stage
•
an Issue stage
•
the four stages of the ARM1176JZF-S integer execution pipeline.
These eight stages make up the processor pipeline.
Figure 1-2 ARM1176JZF-S pipeline stages
From Figure 1-2, the pipeline operations are:
Fe1
First stage of instruction fetch where address is issued to memory and data returns
from memory
Fe2
Second stage of instruction fetch and branch prediction.
De
Instruction decode.
Iss
Register read and instruction issue.
Sh
Shifter stage.
ALU
Main integer operation calculation.
Sat
Pipeline stage to enable saturation of integer results.
WBex
Write back of data from the multiply or main execution pipelines.
MAC1
First stage of the multiply-accumulate pipeline.
MAC2
Second stage of the multiply-accumulate pipeline.
MAC3
Third stage of the multiply-accumulate pipeline.
ADD
Address generation stage.
DC1
First stage of data cache access.
DC2
Second stage of data cache access.
WBls
Write back of data from the Load Store Unit.
By overlapping the various stages of operation, the ARM1176JZF-S processor maximizes the
clock rate achievable to execute each instruction. It delivers a throughput approaching one
instruction for each cycle.
1st fetch
stage
2nd fetch
stage
Instruction
decode
Reg. read
and issue
Shifter
stage
ALU
operation
Saturation
stage
Writeback
Mul/ALU
Fe1
Fe2
De
Iss
Sh
ALU
Sat
WBex
1st multiply
acc. stage
2nd multiply
acc. stage
MAC1
MAC2
MAC3
Address
generation
Data
cache 1
Data
cache 2
Writeback
from LSU
ADD
DC1
DC2
WBls
3rd multiply
acc. stage