On Dec 7, 2007 5:39 PM, Petter Urkedal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * In the ALU (stage 3) the output of add is MUXed with the output from > the other operations, since add is the most expensive operation in > terms of propagation delay. Thus add is allowed to utilise the full > cycle, independent of the other operations. The price is a short > delay on the output of the ALU, which spills into the next stage.
Yes, I like the parallel. You had the benefit of being able to use registers as dividing lines. I, on the other hand, had to play dirty nonstandard tricks to do it without the benefit of registers. -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
