Re: What do we call non-pipelined designs?

On Sun, 8 Dec 2024 23:05:40 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:

Why, in this day and age, would anyone want to even consider doing
something less pipelined than that ?!?!?

Here’s one reason (tell me if I’m wrong): I remember some CPU designs used
CMOS and probably some other hardware magic I don’t understand to create
chips that could run at any speed down to 0Hz.

That is, you could slow down the clock and even stop it completely at any
point in instruction execution (keep the power on) to pause the program,
then start it up again and the program would resume from that point.

Would that work with a pipeline? Actually I suppose it would.