The data ALU, address arithmetic units, and program controller operate in parallel so that an instruction prefetch, a 24x24-bit multiplication, a 56-bit addition, two data moves, and two address pointer updates using one of three types of arithmetic (linear, modulo, or reverse carry) can be executed in a single instruction cycle. This parallelism allows a four coefficient Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filter section to be executed in only four cycles, the theoretical minimum for a single multiplier architecture.