Practice Address Representation (15.5.1.1) - Computer Organization and Architecture: A Pedagogical Aspect

Practice: Address Representation

Lesson 15.5.1.1Computer Organization and Architecture: A Pedagogical Aspect

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Question 1.
What does the Program Counter do?
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Think about the CPU's instruction sequence.
Question 2.
What components are found in an instruction?
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Consider what tells the CPU what to do.
3Question 3.
What does the opcode determine?
- The next memory address
- The operation to perform
- The data to fetch
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Remember the role of opcodes in instruction formats.
4Question 4.
True or False: The Program Counter is responsible for executing instructions.
- True
- False
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What role does the PC play?
Question 5.
Design a program that fetches three values from memory and calculates their average. Demonstrate how it would execute in terms of instruction cycles.
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Think about the structure of loading and processing multiple values.
Question 6.
Analyze the impact of increasing address bus size from 12-bit to 16-bit on memory access.
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How does changing the bit size alter the equation for memory addressing?

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