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We have a dilemma now because our example code is not going to work. We have a multiplied A0 and A1 and we're putting the result into A3, and then we want to add A3 to A4. But the result will not be seen in A3 until the following clock cycle. In order to get this code to work, we introduce an instruction called the NOP of “no operation”. This instruction is used to fill the delay slots.