Assignment 10, due April 9

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1. Consider the example architecture given in the midterm study questions and the subject of much of the midterm exam, not to mention the last homework assignment, with this 4-stage pipeline:
   1. IF -- instruction fetch
   2. OF/AC -- operand fetch (from registers) and address computation
   3. ALU/MEM -- arithmetic (operate) or memory reference (load/store)
   4. RS -- result store (to registers)
   Assume no result forwarding or other sophisticated tricks, and identify all of the interlock conditions for this processor, except that involved with self-modifying code. For each interlock condition, identify the Boolean condition that triggers the interlock and the pipeline stages that must stall when this interlock condition is true.

2. Identify each of the possible forwarding paths in this architecture, and for each, indicate the Boolean condition that enables the path. (Note, these will correspond closely to a subset of the stall conditions identified in the first problem).