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The purpose of the intruction decode stage is to understand the semantics of an instruction and to define how this instruction should be executed by the processor. It is in this stage that the processor identifies:
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González, A., Latorre, F., Magklis, G. (2011). Decode. In: Processor Microarchitecture. Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01729-2_4
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