14.4.2 - Recap of Single Bus Organization
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What is a single bus architecture?
💡 Hint: Think about how different parts of a computer interact.
Name one register involved in the single bus architecture.
💡 Hint: Consider the names of registers defined in this architecture.
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What does the Program Counter (PC) do?
💡 Hint: Consider the role of the PC in the instruction lifecycle.
True or False: Indirect addressing mode requires two memory accesses to retrieve the operand.
💡 Hint: Think about how many times the memory needs to be accessed.
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If you had an instruction using indirect addressing, explain the sequence of operations required to execute it, including the number of memory accesses involved.
💡 Hint: Think about each step leading to the final operand retrieval.
Critically evaluate the efficiency of a program that predominantly uses indirect addressing mode compared to direct addressing. What considerations must be factored in?
💡 Hint: Assess how performance could be impacted by the number of memory accesses.
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