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GATE CSE & IT · Pipelining · 2014-2026

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Morris Mano / Patterson-Hennessy

Digital logic, datapath, memory hierarchy, instruction sets

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2026 PYQ

A non-pipelined instruction execution unit that operates at 1.6 GHz clock takes an average of 5 clock cycles to complete the execution of an instruction. To improve the performance...

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2025 Q61

An application executes 6.4 × 10^8 number of instructions in 6.3 seconds. There are four types of instructions, the details of which are given in the table. The duration of a clock...

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2025 PYQ

An application executes $6.4 \times 10^8$ number of instructions in 6.3 seconds. There are four types of instructions, the details of which are given in the table. The duration of...

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2024 Q56

A given program has 25% load/store instructions. Suppose the ideal CPI (cycles per instruction) without any memory stalls is 2. The program exhibits 2% miss rate on instruction cac...

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2024 PYQ

A given program has 25% load/store instructions. Suppose the ideal CPI (cycles per instruction) without any memory stalls is 2. The program exhibits 2% miss rate on instruction cac...

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2024 PYQ

A non-pipelined instruction execution unit operating at 2 GHz takes an average of 6 cycles to execute an instruction of a program P. The unit is then redesigned to operate on a 5-s...

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2022 PYQ

A processor X 1 operating at 2 GHz has a standard 5-stage RISC instruction pipeline having a base CPI (cycles per instruction) of one without any pipeline hazards. For a given prog...

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2020 PYQ

Consider a non-pipelined processor operating at 2.5 GHz. It takes 5 clock cycles to complete an instruction. You are going to make a 5-stage pipeline out of this processor. Overhea...

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2015 PYQ

Consider a non-pipelined processor with a clock rate of 2.5 gigahertz and average cycles per instruction of four. The same processor is upgraded to a pipelined processor with five...

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2014 PYQ

Consider two processors ܲ$${P_1}$$ and $${P_2}$$ executing the same instruction set. Assume that under identical conditions, for the same input, a program running on $${P_2}$$ take...

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2014 PYQ

An instruction pipeline has five stages, namely, instruction fetch $$(IF),$$ instruction decode and register fetch $$(ID/RF)$$ instruction execution $$(EX),$$ memory access $$(MEM)...

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2014 PYQ

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...

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