Practice Load Direct (30.1.2) - Addressing Modes - Computer Organisation and Architecture

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Question 1.
What happens when you execute LOAD IMMEDIATE 10?
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Think about where the value comes from.
Question 2.
What does LOAD DIRECT 4 do?
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Remember the memory location's significance.
3Question 3.
What does LOAD IMMEDIATE do?
- Loads data from memory
- Loads a constant into the accumulator
- Loads data from a register
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Focus on the source of the value.
4Question 4.
True or False: LOAD INDIRECT directly accesses memory location.
- True
- False
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Think about the sequence of actions involved.
Question 5.
Develop an algorithm using displacement addressing to iteratively sum the values from an array of size 5, starting from a base address.
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Consider how you will use the register to traverse through the array.
Question 6.
Create an assembly-like pseudo code using all four addressing modes to execute a small program that loads values into an accumulator through various methods.
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Think about how to maintain data consistency across different loading methods.

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