In CISC architectures like the traditional x86, what is the purpose of microcode in instruction execution?

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Microcode is the assembly language program written by the programmer

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Microcode breaks complex CISC instructions into sequences of simpler micro-operations executed by the hardware

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Microcode stores the program being executed in a special high-speed cache

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Microcode enables floating-point arithmetic operations

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