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Define pipelining
A technique used to improve processor performance. It does this by breaking a task into sub tasks, and then overlapping parts of the tasks.
How is pipelining used in the FDE cycle?
It is used for overlapping instruction cycles. One instruction is being decoded, while another is executed and another is fetched.
What does pipelining aim to do?
Reduce CPU idle time.
What is instruction pipelining?
Separating the instruction into fetching, decoding and executing.
What is arithmetic pipelining?
Breaking down the arithmetic operations and overlapping them as they are performed.