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with different parts of instructions processed in parallel.

Concept and motivation

In a pipelined computer, instructions travel through the central processing unit (CPU) in stages. For example, it might have one stage for each step of the von Neumann cycle: Fetch the instruction, fetch the operands, do the instruction, write the results. A pipelined computer usually has "pipeline registers" after each stage. These store information

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