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Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
     
         (MIPS) A project at {Stanford University} intended
        to simplify processor design by eliminating hardware
        {interlock}s between the five {pipeline} stages.  This means
        that only single execution cycle instructions can access the
        thirty two 32-bit general {register}s, so that the {compiler}
        can schedule them to avoid conflicts.  This also means that
        LOAD/STORE and branch instructions have a one-cycle delay to
        account for.  However, because of the importance of multiply
        and divide instructions, a special HI/LO pair of
        multiply/divide registers exist which do have hardware
        interlocks, since these take several cycles to execute and
        complicate {instruction scheduling}.
     
        The project eventually lead to the commercial {MIPS R2000}
        processor.
     
        (1995-02-09)