Thursday, May 15, 2008

What is machine cycle,instruction cycle and T-state?

Machine Cycle:The necessary steps to a fetch,a read or a write operation constitute a Machine cycle.

Instruction Cycle:The necessary steps that a CPU carries out to fetch an instruction and necessary data from the memory,and to execute it constitute an Instruction Cycle.

T-state:One sub-division of an operation performed in one clock cycle is called a T-state.

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