The ____ takes instructions from the prefetch unit and translates them into a form that the control unit can understand.

The instruction decoder takes instructions from the prefetch unit and translates them into a form that the control unit can understand. The instruction decoder is a critical component of a CPU's (Central Processing Unit) microarchitecture. It serves as an intermediary between the initial instruction fetch stage and the subsequent execution stages. When an instruction is fetched from the computer's memory by the prefetch unit (also known as an instruction fetch unit), it is usually in the form of machine code, which is a binary representation that the hardware can process. However, the machine code is not immediately understandable by the control unit that manages the execution of instructions. Therefore, the instruction decoder converts the raw binary data into a set of control signals that can instruct various parts of the CPU on what operations to perform and how to execute the current instruction