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What is the purpose of the Program Counter?
Think about what keeps the CPU on track to execute instructions in order.
What does the Accumulator do during instruction execution?
Consider where a CPU gathers results of calculations.
What is the first phase of the instruction execution cycle?
Think about the initial step in the process of executing instructions.
True or False: The Accumulator holds the next instruction to execute.
Consider what the role of the accumulator is.
Design a simple instruction set with your opcodes and associated operations. How would you organize the instruction format?
Think about the possible operations you would need for basic arithmetic.
Explain how data flows through the CPU when executing a program that involves arithmetic operations, detailing each register's role.
Consider the pathway from memory through to the final results.
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