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In an enhancement of a design of a CPU, the speed of a floating point until has been increased by 20% and the speed of a fixed point unit has been increased by 10%. What is the overall speedup achieved if the ratio of the number of floating point operations to the number of fixed point operations is 2:3 and the floating point operation used to take twice the time taken by the fixed point operation in the original design?

(A) 1.155 (B) 1.185 (C) 1.255 (D) 1.285

Solution[edit]

Speed up = Original time taken/ new time taken Original time taken = (3x + 2*2x)/5 = 7x/5

New time taken = ((3x/1.1) + (4x/1.2))/5 = 8x/1.32*5

So, speed up = 7*1.32/8 = 1.155




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