試題詳解

13. Consider a pipelined datapath to process instructions and is consisted of five steps: Fetch instruction, Decode instruction, Execute instruction, Memory access, Write Back and the processing times are 0.4 ns, 0.25 ns, 0.2 ns, 0.4 ns, and 0.33 ns, respectively. If we want to design a control circuit to operate the pipelined datapath, what is the clock rate?
(A) 2.5 GHz
(B) 4 GHz
(C) 5 GHz.
(D) 3 GHz