1.Consider the execution of a program of 15,00,000 instructions by a linear pipeline processor with a clock rate of 1000 MHz. Assume that the instruction pipeline has five stages and that one instruction is issued per cycle. The penalties due to branch instruction and out-of-order execution are ignored.

a) Calculate the speedup factor in using this pipeline to execute the program as compared with the use of an equivalent non-pipelined processor with an equal amount of flow-through delay.

b) Find out the efficiency and throughput of this pipelined processor.