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8. Scoreboarding and Bus Arbitration

Now I give some consideration to the scheduling and organisation of the units. The Scoreboard ensures that registers and execution units are locked while they are awaiting a result write or in use.

On this page I also make a few calculations relating to the mandelbrot set, concerning the number of instructions that must be executed in each iteration of the mandelbrot calculation. Yes, drawing mandelbrot sets is considered to be the first application for the computer...