http://workcraft.org/ 2026-05-21T21:35:18+00:00 http://workcraft.org/ http://workcraft.org/_media/logo.svg text/html 2020-04-01T17:39:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://workcraft.org/tutorial/model/instruction_decoder/start?rev=1585762747&do=diff Instruction decoder and controller An Instruction Decoder is a circuit that processors implement in order to interpret instructions coming from memory. In synchronous designs, this circuit feeds the appropriate operands into the datapath of the processor, according to the instruction. Additionally, it must communicate with a Controller, whose role is to direct the flow of the execution at every stage of the pipeline.