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Explain, in brief, pipeline stages on Pentium processor.
written 7.4 years ago by gravatar for meghalikalyankar meghalikalyankar • 2.2k •   modified 3.5 years ago
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written 7.4 years ago by gravatar for meghalikalyankar meghalikalyankar • 2.2k

Pentium uses a 5 stage pipeline with the following stages in the pipeline.

  1. Prefetch stage - Pentium instructions are variable length and are stored in a prefetch buffer. There is a 256 bit path from instruction cache to the prefetch buffer.

  2. Decode 1 stage - In this stage the processor …

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