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Spring 2004. Pentium structure. The integer pipelines. Two pipelines called u and vFive stages per pipelineInstruction fetchInstruction decoding 1Instruction decoding 2ExecutionRegister writebackFunctionalityU can do all instructions including emulating complex instructions from microcodeV can do only simple integer instructions and the FXCH.
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1. Spring 2004 Pentium structure Pentium block diagram Data path sizes
Registers – 32
Internal paths – 128 to 256
Cache line size – 32 bytes
Cache size – 8 Kb each
Data bus - 64
2. Spring 2004 Pentium structure The integer pipelines Two pipelines – called u and v
Five stages per pipeline
Instruction fetch
Instruction decoding 1
Instruction decoding 2
Execution
Register writeback
Functionality
U can do all instructions – including emulating complex instructions from microcode
V can do only simple integer instructions and the FXCH