# decoding

> part of the instruction cycle of a CPU, determining what instruction is to be performed so that the CPU can tell how many operands it needs to fetch; the opcode fetched from the memory is decoded for the next steps and moved to appropriate registers

**Wikidata**: [Q3704546](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3704546)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/decoding-q3704546