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Instruction cycle
The instruction cycle (also called fetch-and-execute cycle, fetch-decode-execute cycle (FDX)) can refer to either the time period during which one instruction is fetched from memory and executed when a computer is given an instruction in machine language or the sequence of actions that a Central processing unit (CPU) performs to execute each machine code instruction in a program.
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