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9166DS–AVR-01/12
AT32UC3C
Figure 4-1. Overview of the AVR32UC CPU
4.3.1 Pipeline Overview
AVR32UC has three pipeline stages, Instruction Fetch (IF), Instruction Decode (ID), and Instruc-
tion Execute (EX). The EX stage is split into three parallel subsections, one arithmetic/logic
(ALU) section, one multiply (MUL) section, and one load/store (LS) section.
Instructions are issued and complete in order. Certain operations require several clock cycles to
complete, and in this case, the instruction resides in the ID and EX stages for the required num-
ber of clock cycles. Since there is only three pipeline stages, no internal data forwarding is
required, and no data dependencies can arise in the pipeline.
Figure 4-2 on page 28 shows an overview of the AVR32UC pipeline stages.
AVR32UC CPU pipeline
Instruction memory controller
MPU
High Speed Bus High Speed Bus
OCD
system
OCD interface
Interrupt controller interface
High
Speed
Bus slave
High Speed Bus
High Speed Bus master
Power/
Reset
control
Reset interface
CPU Local
Bus
master
CPU Local Bus
Data memory controller
CPU RAM
High Speed
Bus master