Q. 30 A 4-stage pipeline has the stage delays as 150, 120, 160 and 140 nanoseconds
respectively. Registers that are used between the stages have a delay of 5
nanoseconds each. Assuming constant clocking rate, the total time taken to
process 1000 data items on this pipeline will be
(A) 120.4 microseconds
(B) 160.5 microseconds
(C) 165.5 microseconds
(D) 590.0 microseconds
Answer: (C)
Explanation:
