Practice - Instruction Fetch, Decode, and Execute
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Practice Questions
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What is the role of the program counter during the fetch phase?
💡 Hint: Think about what keeps track of instruction sequences.
Define the term 'opcode'.
💡 Hint: Consider what tells the CPU what to do.
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Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What is the first step in the instruction execution cycle?
💡 Hint: Remember the order of operations in the CPU.
True or False: Immediate addressing always requires fetching operands from memory.
💡 Hint: Think about how operands are utilized in immediate addressing.
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Challenge Problems
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Design an instruction cycle that includes an interrupt service routine. Illustrate how the CPU handles the interrupt within the fetch-decode-execute cycle.
💡 Hint: Think about how to illustrate flow with both instruction types and interrupts.
Create a comparative analysis between direct and indirect addressing modes and their efficiency in instruction execution.
💡 Hint: Consider both speed and memory usage.
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