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Chapter 21
VFP Instruction Execution
This chapter describes the VFP11 instruction pipeline and its relationship with the ARM processor
instruction pipeline. It contains the following sections:
• About instruction execution on page 21-2
• Serializing instructions on page 21-3
• Interrupting the VFP11 coprocessor on page 21-4
• Forwarding on page 21-5
• Hazards on page 21-6
• Operation of the scoreboards on page 21-7
• Data hazards in full-compliance mode on page 21-13
• Data hazards in RunFast mode on page 21-16
• Resource hazards on page 21-17
• Parallel execution on page 21-20
• Execution timing on page 21-22.