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MIPS 5 stage pipeline

  1. Fetch instruction from memory
  2. Read registers while decoding the instruction (the format of MIPS instructions allow reading and decoding to occur simultaneously)
  3. Execute the operation or calculate an address
  4. Access an operand in data memory.
  5. Write the result into a register.

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