Assume that the scheduling logic will issue an instruction to the execution unit when all of its register operands are ready.
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Many bitboard operations require fewer conditionals and therefore increase pipelining and make effective use of multiple execution units on many CPUs.
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The CPU die contains the majority of logic, all of the execution units and a level 0 ( L0 ) instruction cache.
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Then motion detectors went off, and they had to run for their lives as officers in the execution unit shot at them.
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This obviously limits you to executing three instructions per cycle in the long term, no matter how many execution units you have.
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Superscalar CPU design emphasizes improving the instruction dispatcher accuracy, and allowing it to keep the multiple execution units in use at all times.
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Four read ports supply operands to the two integer execution units ( the branch unit was considered part of an integer unit ).
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Each of the queues except for the load / store queue can issue up to two instructions every cycle to its execution units.
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Half of the write ports are used for results from the integer execution units and the other half by data returned by loads.
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An exception is encountered when the execution unit encounters a branch instruction i . e . either a jump or a call instruction.
