Multiple choice

Which of the following operations in pipeline instruction processing is performed first?

  1. Calculate operand address

  2. Fetch instruction

  3. Decode instruction

  4. Execute instruction

  5. Fetch operand
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B Correct answer
Explanation

This is the first operation in pipeline instruction processing in which the next expected instruction is read into a buffer from cache memory.

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