A 4-stage pipeline has the stage delays as 150, 120, 160 and 140 nanoseconds…

GATE · 2004 · CS

A 4-stage pipeline has the stage delays as 150, 120, 160 and 140 nanoseconds respectively. Registers that are used between the stages have a delay of 5 nanoseconds each. Assuming constant clocking rate, the total time taken to process 1000 data items on this pipeline will be

  1. A.

    120.4 microseconds

  2. B.

    160.5 microseconds

  3. C.

    165.5 microseconds

  4. D.

    590.0 microseconds

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