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pipeline hazard

A situation where the next instruction can't go ahead in the next cycle without giving a wrong result or fighting over hardware.

A pipeline hazard is a condition that prevents the next instruction from executing in its scheduled cycle: structural (a resource conflict), data (an operand not yet produced) or control (the next instruction's address not yet known).

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