Suppose that a bus has 16 data lines and requires 4 cycles of 250 nests each to transfer data. The bandwidth of this bus would be 2 Megabytes/sec. If the cycle time of the bus was reduced to 125 nsecs and the number of cycles required for transfer stayed the same what would the bandwidth of the bus?
(a) 1 Megabyte/sec
(b) 4 Megabytes/sec
(c) 8 Megabytes/sec
(d) 2 Megabytes/sec
This question was addressed to me in an international level competition.
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