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structural hazard

A hazard where two instructions need the same piece of hardware in the same cycle, such as one memory port for both fetching an instruction and loading data.

A structural hazard is a resource conflict between instructions in the pipeline; designs remove the common ones by duplicating resources (separate instruction and data caches, multiple register-file ports).

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pipeline hazard data hazard
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