Although this may be sufficient for most operations, but some operations like divide may require more time to complete.
Figure 9.6 shows the effect of an operation that takes more than one clock cycle to complete an operation in operate stage.
Clock Cycle
Instructions
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Figure 9.6: Operation takes more than one clock cycle
