instruction execution

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instruction execution - (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer

physical process, process - a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states; "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"

computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures

batch processing - the serial execution of computer programs

data processing - (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information

concurrent execution, multiprogramming - the execution of two or more computer programs by a single computer

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As was already mentioned, each memory access is considered as the access to the same memory location, so the possibility of simultaneous memory access is disabled, and thus also the possibility of nondeterministic instruction execution order that would corrupt the semantics of parallel programs.

An Automatic Instruction-Level Parallelization of Machine Code

LD instruction execution time: 3.3 ns, program capacity: 1.5 MB

Advanced control for compact machines

From the table 1, compared with the CISC, RISC software development is difficult, but due to the small number of instructions, the average instruction execution cycle shorten and improve the working frequency of computer; extensive use of general-purpose registers, can greatly increase the speed of program execution.

Study on wireless data transmission system based on GPRS and ARM

In this case, the KiloCore's per-instruction energy can be as low as 5.8 pJ, including instruction execution, data reads/writes, and network accesses.

KiloCore Project Packs 1,000 CPU Cores into Tiny Power Envelope, 32nm Process

Multicore energy consumption estimation model provided by [15] calculates consumption based on cores' frequency and utilization, unlike the solution presented here, which evaluates each core average power based on instruction execution at the current cycle and the cycle before that one.

Energy consumption estimation for embedded applications

The proposed technique can tolerate high latency memory from avoiding the speculation in instruction execution. However, without well utilizing memory latency, only the compiler cannot obtain the best performance improvement for complicated programs.

Design example of useful memory latency for developing a hazard preventive pipeline high-performance embedded-microprocessor

Out-of-order instruction execution for higher performance

AMD showcases Bulldozer and Bobcat processor architectures

Building on the inherently high throughput of the ARM966E-S core, ST has added high-speed burst Flash memory and zero- latency SRAM for efficient instruction execution and data movement.