Have you studied pipelining? List the 5 stages of a 5 stage
pipeline. Assuming 1 clock per stage, what is the latency
of an instruction in a 5 stage machine? What is the
throughput of this machine ?
Answer Posted / adi
Latency is 5 clocks
Throughput is 1 instruction/clock
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