Practice Load Indirect (30.1.3) - Addressing Modes - Computer Organisation and Architecture

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Question 1.
What does the instruction LOAD IMMEDIATE 10 do?
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Think about where the value comes from.
Question 2.
Explain what LOAD DIRECT 4 does.
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What is the relationship with memory locations?
3Question 3.
What does the LOAD IMMEDIATE instruction do?
- Loads a value from memory
- Loads a constant directly into the accumulator
- Loads from register
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Think about how the data is sourced.
4Question 4.
True or False: LOAD INDIRECT 5 directly loads a value into the accumulator.
- True
- False
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What does 'indirect' imply?
Question 5.
Describe how you would use LOAD INDIRECT to access data stored across multiple locations. Consider the nested referencing necessary.
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Think about multi-level addresses.
Question 6.
Explain how using a base register can optimize the process of accessing array elements via displacement addressing.
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Consider the structure of memory and how displacement simplifies access.

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