Question $1$

A computer architect needs to design the pipeline of a new microprocessor.

She has an example workload program core with $10^(7)$ instructions.

Each instruction takes $100$ ps $($picosecond$)$ to finish.

The current state$-$of$-$the$-$art microprocessor has $17$ pipeline stages.

Assume it is perfectly pipelined.

How much speedup will it achieve compared to the nonpipelined processor?

For this question, you need to compute the execution time for a stage, when the execution of one instruction is partitioned into $17$ stages.

$18$ ps

$19$ ps

$17$ ps

$16$ ps

Question $2$

A computer architect needs to design the pipeline of a new microprocessor.

She has an example workload program core with $10^(7)$ instructions.

Each instruction takes $100$ ps $($picosecond$)$ to finish.

How long does it take to execute this program core on a non$-$pipelined processor?