Practice Immediate Addressing Mode (29.4.1) - Addressing Modes - Computer Organisation and Architecture

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Question 1.
What is immediate addressing?
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Think about how data is presented in the instruction.
Question 2.
In direct addressing, what does the instruction contain?
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Consider how it points to data.
3Question 3.
What does immediate addressing imply?
- The operand is in memory
- The operand is part of the instruction
- The instruction points to a register
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Remember what is directly included in the instruction.
4Question 4.
True or False: In indirect addressing, the address of the operand is in the instruction.
- True
- False
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Think about the layers of access.
Question 5.
Design a small assembly code snippet utilizing immediate and direct addressing modes, detailing the size of each instruction.
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Consider how many bytes are needed for immediate vs. directed addressing.
Question 6.
Create an array structure using displacement addressing and describe how data can be accessed within it.
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Think of adapting a loop to iterate through an array.

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