Which of the following parameter is improved by introducing pipelining in digital design?

Which of the following parameter is improved by introducing pipelining in digital design? Correct Answer Maximum clock frequency

Pipelining is a popular design technique used to accelerate the operation of datapath in a microprocessor. It improves resource utilization and increases functional throughput.

Most modern CPUs are driven by a clock. The CPU consists internally of logic and memory (flip flops).

• When the clock signal arrives, the flip flop stores their new value and then the logic requires a period of time to decode the flip flops new values. Then the next clock pulse arrives and the flip flops store another value, and so on.
• By breaking the logic into smaller pieces and inserting flip flops between pieces of logic, the time required by the logic (to decode values till generating valid outputs depending on these values) is reduced.
• The cycle of the time of the processor is reduced, thus increasing the instruction issue rate in most cases. In this way, the clock period can be reduced.