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Foundations of Computing7

Instruction Set Architecture5

The fetch-decode-execute cycle - how a CPU actually runs a program
What does an instruction actually look like in memory?
The three jobs every instruction set needs to do
Addressing modes: how an instruction says where its data actually is
Registers, the register file, and what an ISA actually promises

Datapath & Control Unit4

Instruction Pipelining4

Memory Hierarchy7

I/O Interfaces & Interrupts5

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The fetch-decode-execute cycle - how a CPU actually runs a program

A CPU never "runs" a program the way you imagine. It repeats one tiny loop, billions of times a second - fetch an instruction, figure out what it means, do it, repeat.

10 min readUpdated 2026-09-03computer-architectureinstruction-set-architecturefetch-decode-execute