If the loop exits after executing only two iterations, draw a pipeline diagram for your MIPS code from 4.28.1 executed on a 2-issue processor shown in Figure 4.69. Assume the processor has perfect branch prediction and can fetch any two instructions (not just consecutive instructions) in the same cycle.

Exercise 4.28.1

Translate this C code into MIPS instructions. Your translation should be direct, without rearranging instructions to achieve better performance.

In this exercise we compare the performance of 1-issue and 2-issue processors, taking into account program transformations that can be made to optimize for 2-issue execution. Problems in this exercise refer to the following loop (written in C):

When writing MIPS code, assume that variables are kept in registers as follows, and that all registers except those indicated as Free are used to keep various variables, so they cannot be used for anything else.

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80000180 Instruction memory ++ Sign extend Registers Sign- extendi x x ALU ALU Write data Data memory Address