Structural hazard

Tag: structural-hazard

Aliases: resource conflict

A pipeline stall caused by two instructions needing the same hardware resource (e.g., a single memory port) in the same cycle.

Lecture references

• L05 · Scoreboarding — p.24 , p.32 , p.33 , p.39 , p.47 , p.48
• L06 · Tomasulo — p.6 , p.7 , p.18 , p.19 , p.26 , p.33
• L07 · Interrupts & P6 — p.7 , p.41 , p.51
• L08 · MIPS R10000 — p.9 , p.20

Exam references

• Midterm — Spring 2024 — Q1
• Midterm — Spring 2025 — Q2(c)