Recent questions tagged branch-conditional-instructions

Consider two machines M1 and M2. For both machines, all instructions except for mispredicted branches take one cycle. Mispredicted branches take one cycle plus an additio...

Assume an instruction mix of $15 \%$ conditional branches, $1 \%$ unconditional branches, $84 \%$ all others, and $60 \%$ of the conditional branches are taken. We have a...

Consider the following sequence of instructions for a pipelined processor with one branch delay slot: I1 LABEL: ADD R3 ← R3 + 1I2 DIV R2 ← R2/R6I3 ...

A particular instruction set has five categories of instructions. For a hardware implementation, instructions in each category take the number of cycles shown below:A cer...

1. Assume a Bus System constructed to connect 7 registers and memory unit of 32 word length using multiplexer. So:a) How many multiplexer is needed?b) What type of multip...

In a pipeline the maximum ideal speed-up is 5. Let the percentage of unconditional branches in a set of typical program be 5% and that of conditional branches be 10%. If ...

A hypothetical 5 stage pipeline processor is designed in which branch is predicted at 3rd stage and each stage takes 1 cycle to compute its tasks. If f is the probability...

The title says it all: How many stall cycles are caused due to each incorrect branch prediction?Additional details you might need:Branch is executed in execution stage of...

Consider a 5 stage pipeline that allows overlapping of all instructions except branch instructions. The target of branch instructions is not available until the branch in...

Assume that the base register contains 32856. The program counter is currently having a value of 25687 memory location. What is the branch address if the address field of...

Assume branch instruction occurs 15% of the time and are predicted as not taken, while in practice they are taken 40% of the time with a penalty of 3 cycles. With forward...

Is branch prediction in pipelining im Co and architecture part of gate syllabus?