Microprogramming for Multicycle Control
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macroinstruction - an instruction at the assembly or machine code level
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A microinstruction
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causes a set of control signals that can be asserted during each cycle.
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determines which microinstruction should be executed next.
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Increment the address of the current microinstruction to obtain the
address of the next microinstruction.
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Jump to another microinstruction.
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Choose the next microinstruction based on the control unit input (dispatch).
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Each macroinstruction is implemented by executing a sequence of
microinstructions.
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