I am studying for my exam tomorrow and I am having difficulty in the below code :
sub $ 2, $ 1, $ 3 and $ 12, $ 2, $ 5 or $ 13, $ 6, $ 2 add $ 14, $ 2, $ 2 sw $ 15, 100($ 2) Due to the ALU-ALU dependency here on Register $ 2 , The sub instruction does not write its result until the fifth stage, meaning that we would have to waste three clock cycles in the pipeline. My question is why 3 clock cycles ? This dependency can be solved by inserting two nops and therefore we are wasting 2 clock cycles ? Please clarify it to me as I am trying to relate the nops to the wasted cycles and I am sure that I have a huge misunderstanding here .
