Practice Immediate Addressing (29.2.1) - Addressing Modes - Computer Organisation and Architecture

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Question 1.
What is immediate addressing?
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Think about directly included values.
Question 2.
Give an example of direct addressing.
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How do you point directly to a memory?
3Question 3.
Immediate addressing involves the operand being specified how?
- Included in the instruction
- Stored in a memory location
- In a register
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Think of how immediate addressing works.
4Question 4.
True or False: Indirect addressing requires two memory accesses.
- True
- False
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Consider the process of fetching data indirectly.
Question 5.
Given an instruction ADD 0x1A, identify its addressing mode and discuss its implications regarding memory size.
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Consider how operand size influences instruction design.
Question 6.
Design a simple algorithm using register indirect addressing to sum elements from an array stored in memory. Explain the role of registers.
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Think about how registers can speed up data access.

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