GATE | GATE-CS-2005 | Question 68

A 5 stage pipelined CPU has the following sequence of stages:

IF — Instruction fetch from instruction memory,
RD — Instruction decode and register read,
EX — Execute: ALU operation for data and address computation,
MA — Data memory access - for write access, the register read
     at RD stage is used,
WB — Register write back.
Consider the following sequence of instructions:
I1 : L R0, 1oc1;        R0 <= M[1oc1]
I2 : A R0, R0;           R0 <= R0 + R0
I3 : S R2, R0;           R2 <= R2 - R0
Let each stage take one clock cycle.

What is the number of clock cycles taken to complete the above sequence of instructions starting from the fetch of I1 ?

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(B)

(C)

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