Instruction Breakdown/Datapath Tutorial

This is version 2 of the existing instruction breakdown/datapath tutorial. Some content was changed for clarity and animations were added to the datapath step-through section. This tutorial breaks down the three instruction types (r, j, i) to show how they are different and what those differences are. It also steps each type through a simplified diagram of the processor's datapath to further illustrate how the different encodings behave in the hardware.
Video courtesy of Dr. Sohum Sohoni, lead architect of the Progressive Learning Platform. Narration by Damon Cost. Figures created by Damon Cost and Vance Anderson who were students working under Dr. Sohoni's supervision.

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[@trickystyler]

5:47 addu $t0 $t0 $1
9:58 j myLabel
12:49 beq $t0 $t1 myLabel
15:42 sw $t0 12($t1)

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Can you do a similar video for a multi cycle datapath please?

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