Practice Instructions for Adding and Subtracting Registers - 16.1.4 | 16. Instruction Design | Computer Organisation and Architecture - Vol 1
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Question 1

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What does the SUB instruction do?

💡 Hint: Think about what happens to the value in the AC.

Question 2

Easy

Describe what happens when we execute the ADD instruction.

💡 Hint: Remember the role of the Accumulator in arithmetic operations.

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Question 1

What does the ADD operation do in the context of registers?

  • Subtraction
  • Addition
  • Increment

💡 Hint: Consider what you're doing in basic arithmetic.

Question 2

True or False: The value of the Accumulator remains unchanged after executing a SUB instruction.

  • True
  • False

💡 Hint: Remember what the instruction does to the current value.

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Question 1

Design an efficient program using the defined instructions to compute the average score of five subjects without using direct memory manipulation.

💡 Hint: You have to keep track of how many scores you have processed to avoid over-counting.

Question 2

Discuss how an increase in register count would affect the opcode design for an instruction set.

💡 Hint: Think about how more registers can make the operations complex.

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