GATE CS 2014 Set 2 — Question 43

Numerical answer 2 marks Question 43 2014

Question 43

NAT 2 marks · no negative Computer Organization and Architecture

Consider a 6-stage instruction pipeline, where all stages are perfectly balanced. Assume that there is no cycle-time overhead of pipelining. When an application is executing on this 6-stage pipeline, the speedup achieved with respect to non-pipelined execution if 25% of the instructions incur 2 pipeline stall cycles is ______.

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GATE CS — Computer Science & IT 2014 Computer Organization and Architecture

Source: GATE 2014 Computer Science and Information Technology, Set 2 (set and question number approximate)

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