This document discusses pipelining in microprocessors. Pipelining allows a microprocessor to begin executing the next instruction before the previous one has finished. It works by breaking down the instruction process into stages, like an assembly line, where each stage performs part of the process on individual instructions in parallel. The key steps are to divide the process into subtasks that form pipeline stages, have each stage perform an operation on a set of operands, pass results to the next stage, and feed a new set of inputs to each stage. Pipelining can be classified by the level of processing, configuration, and type of instruction and data.