Practice - Lecture – 06 Execution of Program and Programming Languages
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Practice Questions
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What is the role of the Program Counter (PC)?
💡 Hint: What does PC stand for?
Describe the role of the Accumulator (AC) in CPU operations.
💡 Hint: What is accumulation?
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Interactive Quizzes
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What are the two main phases of the fetch-execute cycle?
💡 Hint: Remember the F.E. cycle!
True or False: The opcode of an instruction determines how the CPU should operate.
💡 Hint: Think of it as the instruction type.
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Challenge Problems
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Using an instruction format of 16-bit with a 4-bit opcode, propose different opcodes for three basic operations like addition and subtraction and describe their functionalities.
💡 Hint: Think about the operations you use frequently in programming.
How would you design an instruction for a CPU that needs to store the value from an accumulator into memory? Explain the stages involved.
💡 Hint: What do you call the instruction format part that specifies memory locations?
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