Practice - Types of Registers
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Practice Questions
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What is a general-purpose register?
💡 Hint: Think about what you can use directly in calculations.
Name a special-purpose register.
💡 Hint: What register holds the current instruction?
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does the Program Counter (PC) do?
💡 Hint: Think about which register helps in keeping track of where the CPU is in the instruction cycle.
True or False: General-purpose registers can only store integer values.
💡 Hint: Consider the versatility of general-purpose registers.
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Challenge Problems
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Explain how the Program Counter (PC) and Instruction Register (IR) work together during the execution of a program.
💡 Hint: Trace the steps of instruction fetching and execution.
Discuss the implications of having insufficient general-purpose registers in a CPU’s design on performance.
💡 Hint: Think about data access speed and computation efficiency.
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