Computer Science · Pipelining
Consider a 5-stage pipelined processor with instruction execution stages: Instruction Fetch (IF), Instruction Decode (ID), Execute (EX), Memory Access (MEM), and Write Back (WB). The delay of each stage is 15 nsec. If there is an overhead (latch delay) of 2 nsec, what is the actual clock cycle time (Tp) of this pipelined machine?
- 110 nsec
- 213 nsec
- 317 nsec✓
- 415 nsec
Correct answer
17 nsec
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