Micro-operation

In microarchitecture micro-operations (sometimes termed: micro-instructions, also known as micro-ops or μops), are detailed low-level instructions used in some designs to implement complex machine instructions in which each instruction is composed of a set of low-level micro-ops.

Micro-operation Media

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  A high-level illustration showing the decomposition of machine instructions into micro-operations, performed during typical fetch-decode-execute cycles