Essentials Of Computer Organization And Architecture 4th Edition by Linda Null,Julia Lobur

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Suppose some hypothetical system's control unit has a ring (cycle) counter consisting of some number of D flip-flops. This system runs at 1GHz and has a maximum of 10 micro operations/instruction.
a) What is the maximum frequency of the output (number of signal pulses) output by each flip-flop
b) How long does it take to execute an instruction that requires only 4 micro operations

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