15.1 - Indirect Mode
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Practice Questions
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What does the indirect mode of addressing do?
💡 Hint: Think about how a treasure map leads you to another location.
Name the register that holds the next instruction address.
💡 Hint: It's involved in tracking where the CPU is in execution.
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What is the purpose of the indirect mode?
💡 Hint: Remember the analogy of using another map to find what you need!
True or False: Indirect addressing always uses a single memory access.
💡 Hint: Think about how many steps it takes to get to the final answer.
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Design an hypothetical CPU instruction that uses indirect addressing to fetch an operand and outline all necessary stages in detail.
💡 Hint: Consider a sequence outlining who talks to whom among registers.
Compare the efficiency of indirect addressing to that of direct addressing with respect to a complex program load time.
💡 Hint: Weigh the pros and cons of speed versus flexibility in memory access.
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