12 DSEP Microarchitecture Decoupled: Each stage controls its own latency  Based on local critical path  Stage balancing not important Each stage can have several different latencies  Selection based on inputs Decoupled, Self-Timed, Elastic Pipeline RetireRetire Results Retire Write back Commit Flush From I–Cache Fetch Decode Rename Read/Reorder Issue Execute Data Read Pipeline is operating at several different speeds simultaneously!
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