Practice Control Operations (22.6.3) - Addressing Modes, Instruction Set and Instruction Execution Flow
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Practice - Control Operations

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Question 1 Easy

What does the Program Counter (PC) do?

💡 Hint: Think about what the CPU needs to reference next.

Question 2 Easy

Define what an opcode is.

💡 Hint: What part of the instruction tells the CPU what to do?

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Question 1

What is the purpose of the Program Counter (PC)?

To store the current instruction being executed
To point to the next instruction to be executed
To decode the instructions

💡 Hint: Remember its role in instruction flow.

Question 2

True or False: An opcode is responsible for specifying what data will be processed.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about the roles of opcodes versus operands.

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

Describe a situation where an interrupt might be necessary and discuss how it would be processed by the CPU.

💡 Hint: Consider real-time events that require immediate CPU attention.

Challenge 2 Hard

Construct an example involving both immediate and direct addressing modes in a single instruction.

💡 Hint: Think about how data can be directly linked or embedded within instructions.

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