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    frontend: Clean-up instruction frontend · 830540b7
    Florian Zaruba authored
    The instuction frontend has become an increasingly messy part an needed
    cleaning-up. The current solution contains 2 x 32 bit instruction data
    fifos and 1 x 64 bit address fifo. Hence, it should be significantly
    more area efficient that the previous one. The interface to `id_stage`
    is a ready/valid handshake. The credit based system has been replaced in
    favour of a replay mechanism as it was very brittle and overly
    pessimistic.
    
    Branch-prediction has been cleaned up: The front-end was also partially
    predicting on jumps, this could have potentially let to performance bugs
    if the branch detection wasn't correct in the frontend.
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    frontend: Clean-up instruction frontend
    Florian Zaruba authored
    The instuction frontend has become an increasingly messy part an needed
    cleaning-up. The current solution contains 2 x 32 bit instruction data
    fifos and 1 x 64 bit address fifo. Hence, it should be significantly
    more area efficient that the previous one. The interface to `id_stage`
    is a ready/valid handshake. The credit based system has been replaced in
    favour of a replay mechanism as it was very brittle and overly
    pessimistic.
    
    Branch-prediction has been cleaned up: The front-end was also partially
    predicting on jumps, this could have potentially let to performance bugs
    if the branch detection wasn't correct in the frontend.