The fundamental sequence of steps that a CPU performs. Also known as the "fetch-execute cycle," it is the process whereby a single instruction is executed. The first half of the cycle transfers the ...

The registers inside the CPU, the machine code instruction set, and the ways in which the instructions interact with the registers and status flags are all intertwined. As you may recall, one of my ...

CPUs can only carry out one instruction at a time. It might seem like CPUs can perform many instructions simultaneously, since it is possible for you to do homework, read instant messages and listen ...