The fundamental sequence of steps that a CPU performs. Also known as the "fetch-execute cycle," it is the process whereby a single instruction is executed. The first half of the cycle transfers the ...

There was a time when the clock speed of a CPU was the only thing people were talking about. Back at the turn of the century, Intel and AMD locked horns in a race to release the first 1GHz desktop CPU ...

A measure of how a given piece of code or the entire application is performing is to look at the average number of cycles that are needed to retire an instruction. This is an indication of how much ...

The time it takes for an instruction to be fetched from memory (RAM) and stored in the instruction register. The instruction time is the first half of the cycle. The second half executes the ...

Toshiba’s latest 8-bit microcontroller core, the TLCS-870/C1, will process one instruction cycle per clock cycle, enabling power savings from lower frequency operation. A further enhancement is a ...