d) Pipelining

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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.

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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.

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What does pipelining aim to do?

Reduce CPU idle time.

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What is instruction pipelining?

Separating the instruction into fetching, decoding and executing.

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What is arithmetic pipelining?

Breaking down the arithmetic operations and overlapping them as they are performed.