The multiplier consists of a three-cycle pipeline with early result forwarding not possible other than to the internal accumulate path. For a subsequent multiply accumulate the result is available one cycle earlier than for all other uses of the result.

Certain multiplies require:

Multiplies with 64-bit results take and require two cycles to write the results, consequently they have two result latencies with the low half of the result always available first. The multiplicand and multiplier are required as Early registers because they are both required at the start of MAC1.

Table 17.10 shows the cycle timing behavior of example multiply instructions.