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•Created by Daniel kalu on 7/2/2024 in #middleware-and-os

How does the processor pipeline handle instruction fetch latency?

The Cortex-M0/M3 processors use pipelined instruction fetch, separate fetch and access stages, buffering, prefetching, cache, and out-of-order execution to manage instruction fetch latency and handle data reads while the bus is busy fetching instructions. If instruction fetches take more than one cycle, the processor stalls the pipeline

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