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help? Hazards Classify each of the below situations as either a structural hazar

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Hazards Classify each of the below situations as either a structural hazard, control hazard, or a data hazard: The memory shared by instruction fetches and data accesses in a von Neumann memory architecture. A conditional branch instruction in a RISC processor. An integer multiplier that takes two cycles to complete when all other arithmetic operations in a processor take one cycle. Assume that there are sufficient register read and write ports to support all the necessary reads and writes per cycle.

Explanation / Answer

a. data hazard

b. control hazard

c. structural hazard