Practice Examples Of Addressing Modes (30.3) - Addressing Modes - Computer Organisation and Architecture

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Question 1.
What does LOAD IMMEDIATE 10 do?
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Think about how immediate addressing works.
Question 2.
In direct addressing, how do we obtain the value?
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Refer to the LOAD DIRECT example.
3Question 3.
What is immediate addressing?
- A method of addressing using a memory location
- An operand specified directly in the instruction
- A method of addressing that requires a pointer
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Think about the instruction itself.
4Question 4.
Direct addressing uses memory locations directly. True or False?
- True
- False
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Consider how we specify addresses.
Question 5.
You have a register R1 with a value of 3 and an instruction that requires a displacement of 2. What is the effective address?
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Simply add the two values.
Question 6.
Create an example instruction that uses indirect addressing and explain how it retrieves the data.
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Think about the levels of addressing.

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