Talk:CSC 456 Fall 2013/1d vb

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• Another limitation on pipeline depth is the overhead of latching, which is needed at the end of each stage, so partial results can be "pulsed" to the next stage.

• I did a Google Scholar search on "pipeline depth". An alternative is to search both the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore.

• Power is another consideration; see http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=956566.

• It is important not just to give the results, but to explain how and why the authors have reached the conclusions that they did.

• The first several hits for this topic are from 2002-2003. Earlier work by Kunkel and Smith from 1997 is also worth citing, to show how the situation changed during the intervening years. I find later papers on the IBM Cell processor, about 2005. Then there are several references related to power from about 2008.

• In addition to theoretical and simulation results, it would also be good to look at trade publications for pipeline depths of widely used processors over the years.