A non pipelined single cycle processor operating at 100 MHz is converted into…

GATE · 2008 · IT

A non pipelined single cycle processor operating at 100 MHz is converted into a synchro­nous pipelined processor with five stages requiring 2.5 nsec, 1.5 nsec, 2 nsec, 1.5 nsec and 2.5 nsec, respectively. The delay of the latches is 0.5 nsec. The speedup of the pipeline processor for a large number of instructions is

  1. A.

    4.5

  2. B.

    4.0

  3. C.

    3.33

  4. D.

    3.0

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