Practice Program Execution Example (16.4) - Instruction Design - Computer Organisation and Architecture - Vol 1
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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is an opcode?

💡 Hint: Think about what each instruction requires to be recognized by the processor.

Question 2 Easy

What does the accumulator do?

💡 Hint: Consider where the processor keeps its working values.

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Question 1

What does the opcode represent?

Instruction to execute
Memory location
Data type

💡 Hint: Think of the opcode as the directly typed instruction.

Question 2

True or False: Registers can hold values temporarily during processing.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider the role of registers in computation.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Design a set of instruction codes (opcodes) that could support simple data processing functions like mean, median, and mode.

💡 Hint: Think about what each operation would require in terms of memory and data manipulation.

Challenge 2 Hard

Explain how you would modify the existing instruction set to allow for looping through an array of data.

💡 Hint: Consider what elements are necessary for iterating over multiple data points.

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