Tag
instruction-fetch
- Jan 10, 2025 Flash Wait States and the Cost of Fetching Instructions from Embedded Flash Why an on-chip flash array cannot feed a fast core at one word per cycle, how wait states and prefetch buffers change that, and where the timing stops being uniform. embedded systems
- May 12, 2022 The Control Hazard and Why Fetch Must Guess the Next Instruction How a pipelined front end turns every branch into a bet, what a wrong bet costs in cycles, and why stalling instead of guessing is worse than it looks. computer architecture