15.3.2 - Control Signals and Instruction Execution
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Practice Questions
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What is the purpose of the Program Counter (PC)?
💡 Hint: Think about how the CPU determines what to execute next.
Define the term 'Control Signal'.
💡 Hint: Consider how instructions are managed.
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What type of addressing uses another address to access an operand?
💡 Hint: Think about how operands are fetched.
True or False: Register indirect addressing requires multiple memory accesses.
💡 Hint: Consider how registers streamline addressing.
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Create a flowchart of the steps involved in executing an instruction using memory indirect addressing.
💡 Hint: Break down each stage into its corresponding action.
Calculate the total time taken for executing an instruction in both memory indirect and register indirect addressing, given that each memory access takes 2 cycles.
💡 Hint: Use the information about cycles given for each type of addressing.
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