the FP ALUs need to be re-useable for INT computation, by allowing early-in (bypassing normalisation), getting at what would normally be just the mantissa part of the pipeline, and jumping out. whilst early-out is easy (due to the muxid), early-in may be challenging. the simplest method, although it has the strong disadvantage of creating unnecessary latency, is to just feed in the operands at the front of the pipeline. however, a timing-critical method of bringing the muxids from the later stages up to the front (the Reservation Station) may also work.