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  2. Instruction cycle - Wikipedia

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    The instruction cycle (also known as the fetch–decode–execute cycle, or simply the fetch–execute cycle) is the cycle that the central processing unit (CPU) follows from boot-up until the computer has shut down in order to process instructions. It is composed of three main stages: the fetch stage, the decode stage, and the execute stage.

  3. Harvard architecture - Wikipedia

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    Harvard architecture. The Harvard architecture is a computer architecture with separate storage [1] and signal pathways for instructions and data.It is often contrasted with the von Neumann architecture, where program instructions and data share the same memory and pathways.

  4. Execution (computing) - Wikipedia

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    The instruction cycle (also known as the fetch–decode–execute cycle, or simply the fetch-execute cycle) is the cycle that the central processing unit (CPU) follows from boot-up until the computer has shut down in order to process instructions. It is composed of three main stages: the fetch stage, the decode stage, and the execute stage.

  5. Multithreading (computer architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Cycle i + 2: instruction j + 3 from thread A and instructions m + 1 and m + 2 from thread C are all simultaneously issued. To distinguish the other types of multithreading from SMT, the term " temporal multithreading " is used to denote when instructions from only one thread can be issued at a time.

  6. Instructions per cycle - Wikipedia

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    The number of instructions per second and floating point operations per second for a processor can be derived by multiplying the number of instructions per cycle with the clock rate (cycles per second given in Hertz) of the processor in question. The number of instructions per second is an approximate indicator of the likely performance of the ...

  7. Program counter - Wikipedia

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    The program counter (PC), [1] commonly called the instruction pointer (IP) in Intel x86 and Itanium microprocessors, and sometimes called the instruction address register (IAR), [2] [1] the instruction counter, [3] or just part of the instruction sequencer, [4] is a processor register that indicates where a computer is in its program sequence.

  8. Instruction pipelining - Wikipedia

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    In computer engineering, instruction pipelining is a technique for implementing instruction-level parallelism within a single processor. Pipelining attempts to keep every part of the processor busy with some instruction by dividing incoming instructions into a series of sequential steps (the eponymous "pipeline") performed by different processor units with different parts of instructions ...

  9. Iron law of processor performance - Wikipedia

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    Generally speaking, however, complex instructions inflate the number of clock cycles per instruction because they must be decoded into simpler micro-operations actually performed by the hardware. After converting X86 binary to the micro-operations used internally, the total number of operations is close to what is produced for a comparable RISC ...