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FIGURE 3.14
Steps in the algorithm and what is required for each step
. For the issuing
instruction,
rd
is the destination,
rs
and
rt
are the sources,
r
is the reservation station alloc-
ated,
b
is the assigned ROB entry, and
h
is the head entry of the ROB.
RS
is the reservation
station data structure. The value returned by a reservation station is called the
result
.
Register-
Stat
is the register data structure,
Regs
represents the actual registers, and
ROB
is the reorder
buffer data structure.
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