Practice Execution Process of Programs - 16.5 | 16. Instruction Design | Computer Organisation and Architecture - Vol 1
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Question 1

Easy

What does the opcode in an instruction define?

💡 Hint: Think about what tells the machine what to do.

Question 2

Easy

What role does the accumulator play in execution?

💡 Hint: It's where intermediate results are kept.

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Question 1

What does the opcode in an instruction indicate?

  • The type of memory
  • The operation to perform
  • The data type

💡 Hint: Think about what the code is commanding the machine to do.

Question 2

True or False: The accumulator only stores data permanently.

  • True
  • False

💡 Hint: Remember the purpose of the accumulator in processing.

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Challenge Problems

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Question 1

Design an instruction sequence to read five integers from memory and calculate their average, storing the result in a specific memory location.

💡 Hint: Think about how to keep track of the sum and the number of integers processed.

Question 2

Propose a method to add thousands of numbers without writing each instruction manually, discussing how you could abstract the instruction set.

💡 Hint: Consider how loops work and how to incorporate them with address manipulations.

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