multicycle en · ADJ
Etymology
From multi- + cycle.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or pertaining to more than one cycle.
Mark Hill suggested dropping the multicycle processor implementation and instead adding a multicycle cache controller to the memory hierarchy chapter. This allowed the processor to be presented in a single chapter instead of two.
2009, David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy, Computer organization and design: the hardware/software interface, page xix: