Answer to Question #23175 in Engineering for Sujata Roy

Question

A processor takes 12 cycles to complete an instruction 1. The corresponding pipelined processor uses 6 stages with the execution times of 3, 2, 5, 4, 6 and 2 cycles respectively. What is the asymptotic speedup assuming that a very large number of instructions are to be executed?

A)1.83

B)2

C)3

D)6