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MC68340 USER’S MANUAL

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priority, many instruction words would be flushed unused, and necessary operand cycles

would be delayed. To maximize available bus bandwidth, the CPU32 will schedule a

prefetch only when the next instruction is not a change-of-flow instruction and when there

is room in the pipeline for the prefetch.

5.7.1.3.2 Write Pending Buffer. The CPU32 incorporates a single-operand write pending

buffer. The buffer permits the microsequencer to continue execution after a request for a

write cycle is queued in the bus controller. The time needed for a write at the end of an

instruction can overlap the head cycle time for the following instruction, thus reducing

overall execution time. Interlocks prevent the microsequencer from overwriting the buffer.

5.7.1.3.3 Microbus Controller. The microbus controller performs bus cycles issued by

the microsequencer. Operand accesses always have priority over instruction prefetches.

Word and byte operands are accessed in a single CPU-initiated bus cycle, although the

external bus interface may be required to initiate a second cycle when a word operand is

sent to a byte-sized external port. Long operands are accessed in two bus cycles, most

significant word first.

The instruction pipeline is capable of recognizing instructions that cause a change of flow.

It informs the bus controller when a change of flow is imminent, and the bus controller

refrains from starting prefetches that would be discarded due to the change of flow.

5.7.1.4 INSTRUCTION EXECUTION OVERLAP. Overlap is the time, measured in clock

cycles, that an instruction executes concurrently with the previous instruction. As shown in

Figure 5-31, portions of instructions A and B execute simultaneously, reducing total

execution time. Because portions of instructions B and C also overlap, overall execution

time for all three instructions is also reduced.

Each instruction contributes to the total overlap time. The portion of execution time at the

end of instruction A that can overlap the beginning of instruction B is called the tail of

instruction A. The portion of execution time at the beginning of instruction B that can

overlap the end of instruction A is called the head of instruction B. The total overlap time

between instructions A and B is the smaller tail of A and the head of B.

OVERLAP

INSTRUCTION A

INSTRUCTION B

INSTRUCTION C

Figure 5-31. Simultaneous Instruction Execution

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