This stage can be inserted between any other stages in the pipeline to introduce a latency penalty to instructions. The stage should behave transparently to the other stages except for the added cycle penalty. This means the stage will accept new instructions (isAvailable() == true) whenever the next stage is ready to accept new instructions. It will queue up these instructions and pass them to the next stage after holding them for a number of cycles. We will use this to add the branch misprediction latency later.
This stage can be inserted between any other stages in the pipeline to introduce a latency penalty to instructions. The stage should behave transparently to the other stages except for the added cycle penalty. This means the stage will accept new instructions (
isAvailable() == true) whenever the next stage is ready to accept new instructions. It will queue up these instructions and pass them to the next stage after holding them for a number of cycles. We will use this to add the branch misprediction latency later.