Day 1

• State the two causes of control hazards.
• Describe the effect of unconditional and conditional branches on pipeline performance.
• List the two principal techniques used to handle control hazards.
• Justify advancing jump circuitry into earlier pipeline stages such as IF or ID.
• Draw pipeline flight plans showing instructions stalling through branch decision and then flushing after a taken branch.
• Compare and contrast the simple (predict branch not taken) and complex (statistical prediction) branch prediction techniques.
• Comment on the success of state-of-the-art branch

Day 2

• State the names of the pipeline registers in a basic ARM pipeline without interlocked stages.
• State the signal groups that are held in each pipeline register in a basic ARM pipeline without interlocked stages.
• Identify ALU sources for ARM pipeline microarchitectures that include forwarding circuitry for data hazard elimination.
• Draw the ARM pipelined microarchitecture.

Day 3

• Draw the ARM pipelined microarchitecture. Do it again!
• State what ARM means as an acronym. Explain the ARM acronym.
• Describe the design requirements of the ARM pipeline data hazard forwarding controller.
• Describe the design requirements of the ARM control hazard stall and flush controller.