Clock Cycle (also known as clock period, clock tick, or simply a tick or a cycle) is the minimum time unit required to perform the most basic operation on a microprocessor such as a value transfer between two buffers. The length of a single clock cycle is the time required for one complete clock pulse. It is the reciprocal of the clock speed. The

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