Pipelining

Question 1

What is pipelining in the processor?

Answer 1

a process which allows processor to handle more than one instruction at a time

Question 2

What instruction set is required to implement pipelining and why?

Answer 2

RISC, as each instruction takes up the same amount of cycles

Question 3

How does pipelining work with the FDE cycle?

Answer 3

the next instruction is started before the previous one is finished, however both need to be in different stages

Question 4

What processor architecture is required to implement pipelining?

Answer 4

harvard

Question 5

What can pipelining be outside of the processor?

Answer 5

Data/processes arranged in a series output of one is input of next.

Question 6

Examples of where pipelining is used within the computer?

Answer 6

Instruction processing (1) - some processors allow parts of instructions to be processed (1) without waiting to complete the whole instruction cycle (1). Pipes to pass data between programs (1) from programs to peripherals/to programs from peripherals (1), example such as | symbol in Unix, or
Popen() or pipe() in C (1).