Practice - General Observations
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Practice Questions
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What is an accumulator?
💡 Hint: Think of it as a temporary storage space within the CPU.
Name one benefit of using fewer operands in an instruction.
💡 Hint: Consider how many steps it takes to complete a task.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What role does an accumulator play in one-address instructions?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens to values during calculations.
True or False: A zero-address instruction format uses explicit memory addresses.
💡 Hint: Consider how values are handled in stack-based systems.
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Challenge Problems
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Create an instruction set using both single-address and zero-address formats to compute the expression (A + B) * (C + D). Reflect on the operation count for both.
💡 Hint: Break down the operations step by step for both formats to see the differences.
Given the constraints of a single accumulator, devise an algorithm that executes a multi-step arithmetic problem efficiently. Determine potential inefficiencies.
💡 Hint: Use logical groupings of operations to manage how you load your accumulator.
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