Practice Address Representation (15.5.1.1) - Computer Organization and Architecture: A Pedagogical Aspect
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Address Representation

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Question 1 Easy

What does the Program Counter do?

💡 Hint: Think about the CPU's instruction sequence.

Question 2 Easy

What components are found in an instruction?

💡 Hint: Consider what tells the CPU what to do.

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Question 1

What does the opcode determine?

The next memory address
The operation to perform
The data to fetch

💡 Hint: Remember the role of opcodes in instruction formats.

Question 2

True or False: The Program Counter is responsible for executing instructions.

True
False

💡 Hint: What role does the PC play?

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Challenge 1 Hard

Design a program that fetches three values from memory and calculates their average. Demonstrate how it would execute in terms of instruction cycles.

💡 Hint: Think about the structure of loading and processing multiple values.

Challenge 2 Hard

Analyze the impact of increasing address bus size from 12-bit to 16-bit on memory access.

💡 Hint: How does changing the bit size alter the equation for memory addressing?

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