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Episode 94: How Computers Work Part IV - Processor Architecture and Machine Code

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The Micro Architecture of a Processor

A hypothetical micro architecture involves just a three stage instruction cycle, fetch, decode, and execute all on the second phase. And on the third phase will have ou store so storing the results back to memory. There are many different ways that you can design the micro architecture of a processe but this is just a simple example to illustrate the key ideas.

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