Professor Shai Simonson - CSC 304 - Computer Architecture



Assignment 6

DataPath, Control, and Pipelining

 

Due:  Friday, April 26
(10 points)

1.   Add the two instructions (a) jal and (b) swap to the multi-cycle data path as described here. You need to adjust the hardware and the finite state machine for each instruction.
Hints:  The multicycle data path on our web page has a j instruction already included, and that is half the work for implementing a jal.  The jal instruction can branch directly off of the first cycle.  It does not read any registers and thus need not execute the second cycle at all.  In contrast, the swap instruction must branch off of cycle 2, because it certainly uses register values.  Both jal and swap need two new cycles to complete their executions.  Swap uses one cycle to write one register and then another cycle to write the next one.  Jal uses one cycle to store the PC in $31 and one cycle to overwrite the PC with the jump-label in the instruction.

2.  In the book.
Chapter 4: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10  (do all parts of every problem).

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