Practice Alu Operations (15.6.2) - Computer Organization and Architecture: A Pedagogical Aspect
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Practice - ALU Operations

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is the purpose of the Program Counter?

💡 Hint: Think about what keeps the CPU on track to execute instructions in order.

Question 2 Easy

What does the Accumulator do during instruction execution?

💡 Hint: Consider where a CPU gathers results of calculations.

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Question 1

What is the first phase of the instruction execution cycle?

Fetch
Execute
Store

💡 Hint: Think about the initial step in the process of executing instructions.

Question 2

True or False: The Accumulator holds the next instruction to execute.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider what the role of the accumulator is.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Design a simple instruction set with your opcodes and associated operations. How would you organize the instruction format?

💡 Hint: Think about the possible operations you would need for basic arithmetic.

Challenge 2 Hard

Explain how data flows through the CPU when executing a program that involves arithmetic operations, detailing each register's role.

💡 Hint: Consider the pathway from memory through to the final results.

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