[cse141] problem with H&P 6.6

["Andrew A. Chien" <achien@ucsd.edu>]

There is a problem with the Hennessy&Patterson problem 6.6.
The main difficulty is that 4.42 really has nothing to do with the
problem -- this is an error in the book.

To simplify this problem, you should:

- ignore figure 4.42
- ignore the comment about the data memory
- assume a floating point add operation has the following parts of
  its execution
   1. read floating point registers
   2. compare exponents and normalize
   3. add mantissas
   4. renormalize
   5. write write floating point registers

assume each of these parts is a single cycle and integrate
this functionality with the pipeline shown in Figure 6.12.

cheers,
-Andrew

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