The data processing device and electronic equipment of the present invention perform pipeline control and include a fetch circuit which fetches instruction codes of a plurality of instructions in instruction queues. A prefix instruction decoder circuit performs a decode processing only on a prefix instruction. The prefix instruction decoder circuit receives the instruction code before decoding, judges whether or not the instruction is a given prefix instruction, and causes a target instruction to modify an information register to store information necessary for decoding a target instruction when the instruction is the given prefix instruction. A decoder circuit receives each of the instruction codes of the instructions other than the prefix instruction as a decode instruction and decodes the decode instruction. When the decode instruction is a target instruction, the target instruction modified by the prefix instruction is decoded based on the target instruction modifying information.

 
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