Performance Analysis of Pipeline Architecture

Pipelining has emerged asa powerful technique for obtaining a high throughput rate. The paper analyses Pipeline Architecture reviewing many problems of Instruction Pipeline. The measure of effectiveness in executing a job on a pipelined processor is given by efficiency deduced from the space-time relationship. An expression for efficiency has been deduced when segment times are unequal.Performance of Instruction Pipeline suffers when conditional branch instructions are present in a programme. An expression has been deduced relating efficiency with the number of procedural dependencies in a programme. The suitability of the programme for execution on a pipelined processor may be determined by dynamic measurement of instruction frequencies as suggested here.