An un-pipelined processor takes 10 ns to work on one instruction. It then takes 0.2 ns to latch its results into latches. We were able to convert the circuits into 8 pipeline stages. The stages have the following lengths: 1.3ns; 0.9ns; 0.8ns; 1.2ns; 1.6ns; 0.4ns; 1.5ns; 1.3ns. Answer the following, assuming that there are no stalls in the pipeline.

1) What are the clock cycle time in both processors?

2) How long does it take to finish a single instruction in both processors (in nanoseconds and cycles)?

3) What is the speedup provided by the 8-stage pipeline?

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1 Clock Cycle Time For the unpipelined processor the clock cycle time is simply the time taken to ex... View the full answer