AQA GCSE Computer Science · 8525
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GCSE Computer Science · key term
The repeating process in which the CPU retrieves an instruction from memory, interprets it and carries it out.
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Specification 3.1.1 · Paper 1
The repeated sequence in which the CPU retrieves an instruction from memory, interprets it and carries it out.
Revise: Von Neumann Architecture and the Fetch-Decode-Execute CycleThe CPU then fetches the next instruction and repeats the fetch-decode-execute cycle. Repeated simple operations allow it to carry out a complete program.
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