instruction cycle

noun

Definitions

  1. The steps that a central processing unit undertakes in order to process a single…

    The steps that a central processing unit undertakes in order to process a single instruction, consisting of fetching, decoding, and executing the instruction in question and updating the program counter.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for instruction cycle. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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