NVIDIA Interview Question

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Circuit below, which implements operation C, has been designed such that it has two modules i and j, with the delays shown in the given figure below. The latency for circuit b is 2 and the delay through a register is 5ns. Assume that circuits a and b are stages of a pipeline as shown in the figure below.
















NOTES:
1. The pipeline has 2 stages where the first stage of the pipeline contains circuit a (executing operation A or B) and the second stage of the pipeline contains circuit b (executing operation C).
2. Stage 2 reads the output of stage 1 as soon as it is available even if the two operations of stage 1 (i.e. A and B) have imbalanced latencies.
3. The pipeline has registers only on the inputs of the stages
4. The performance and cost overhead due to control circuitry (e.g. Mux) is not considered in this preliminary analysis.

Based on your analysis in the earlier post, what is the total time required to execute 100 input parcels sent through the pipeline?

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  1. AnonymousJune 20, 2008

    If operation C that has 2 stages are considered to be pipelined, then in total we have 3 stages of pipeline..Tclk=40+5=45 ns...
    no of jobs to be executd=100
    total time=time for 1st job+time for rest 99 jobs..
    1st job appears after 3 clock cycles..then after each clock cycle we get output..
    so,, total time=(3*45)+(99*45)=4590ns.
    am i missing somewhere???

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  2. But it is mentioned that no registers in the output side so Tclk = 30+5=35
    Total time=time for 1st job+time for rest 99 jobs..
    1st bit to reach output 3 clock cycle
    Total time =(35*3)+(99*35)= 3372ns

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