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A '''multi-cycle processor''' is a [[Engineering:Processor (computing)|processor]] that carries out one instruction over multiple clock cycles, often without starting up a new instruction in that time (as opposed to a [[Instruction pipelining|pipelined]] processor).<ref>{{Cite book|title=Digital Design and Computer Architecture ARM Edition|last=Harris|publisher=Elsevier|year=2016|isbn=978-0-12-800056-4|at=sec. 7.3-7.5}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Multi-cycle MIPS Processor |url=https://syssec.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/infk/inst-infsec/system-security-group-dam/education/Digitaltechnik_14/21_Architecture_MultiCycle.pdf |website=System Security Group, ETH Zurich |publisher=[[Organization:ETH Zurich|ETH Zurich]] |location=Zürich, Switzerland}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Lecture 9: Processor design – multi cycle |url=https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/inf2c-cs/13-14/lectures/lec09-slides.pdf |website=School of Informatics :The University of Edinburgh |publisher=[[Organization:University of Edinburgh|University of Edinburgh]] |location=Edinburgh , Scotland |access-date=2020-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808000955/http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/inf2c-cs/13-14/lectures/lec09-slides.pdf |archive-date=2017-08-08 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=ESE 545: Computer Architecture: Designing a Multicycle Processor |url=http://www.ece.sunysb.edu/~midor/ESE545/CA_Multicycle%20processor%20design.pdf |website=Electrical and Computer Engineering - Stony Brook University |publisher=[[Organization:Stony Brook University|Stony Brook University]] |location=Stony Brook, New York |access-date=2020-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180516185250/http://www.ece.sunysb.edu/~midor/ESE545/CA_Multicycle%20processor%20design.pdf |archive-date=2018-05-16 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Engineering:Single cycle processor|Single-cycle processor]], a processor executing (and finishing) one instruction per clock cycle

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