ARM R4F, r1p3 manual Example interlocks, Shifter, Register controlled shifts

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Cycle Timings and Interlock Behavior

14.3.3Example interlocks

Most data processing instructions are single-cycle and can be executed back-to-back without interlock cycles, even if there are data dependencies between them. The exceptions to this are when shifts are used.

Shifter

The registers that the shifter requires are Early Regs and require an additional cycle of result availability before use. For example, the following sequence introduces a 1-cycle interlock, and takes three cycles to execute:

ADD R1,R2,R3

ADD R4,R5,R1 LSL #1

The second source register, which is not shifted, does not incur an extra data dependency check. Therefore, the following sequence takes two cycles to execute:

ADD R1,R2,R3

ADD R4,R1,R9 LSL #1

Register controlled shifts

The register containing the shift distance is an Early Reg. For example, the following sequence takes three cycles to execute:

ADD R1, R2, R3

ADD R4, R2, R4, LSL R1

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