Pipeline principle
Processors : pipelined execution of instructions
Article REF: H1004 V1
Pipeline principle
Processors : pipelined execution of instructions

Authors : Daniel ETIEMBLE, François ANCEAU

Publication date: August 10, 2013, Review date: March 4, 2022 | Lire en français

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1. Pipeline principle

In the file Introduction to computer architecture [H 1 000] , instruction execution was presented on a small machine comparable to the computers of the 1960s or the first microprocessors of the 1970s. In these processors, the execution of each instruction is broken down into elementary steps, which are basically :

  • reading the instruction ;

  • decoding ;

  • reading operands ;

  • execution ;

  • result storage.

  • ...
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