A multi-cycle processor is a
processor
Processor may refer to:
Computing Hardware
* Processor (computing)
**Central processing unit (CPU), the hardware within a computer that executes a program
*** Microprocessor, a central processing unit contained on a single integrated circuit (I ...
that carries out one instruction over multiple
clock cycles
In electronics and especially synchronous digital circuits, a clock signal (historically also known as ''logic beat'') oscillates between a high and a low state and is used like a metronome to coordinate actions of digital circuits.
A clock signa ...
, often without starting up a new instruction in that time (as opposed to a
pipelined processor).
See also
*
Single-cycle processor, a processor executing (and finishing) one instruction per clock cycle
References
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