Practice Achievements Of Course Objectives (16.6.1) - Instruction Design

Practice: Achievements of Course Objectives

Lesson 16.6.1Instruction Design

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Question 1.
What does the accumulator do in CPU operations?
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Think about where results are held during calculations.
Question 2.
Name one control instruction and its function.
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Consider the role of movement within programs.
3Question 3.
What is the role of the accumulator in executing instructions?
- Store final results
- Store intermediate results
- Handle control operations
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Think of the step-by-step calculation process in programming.
4Question 4.
True or False: Control instructions allow skipping over code based on conditions.
- True
- False
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Recall the examples of jumps or halts in control flows.
Question 5.
Given limited instruction sets, propose a new instruction that allows looping through a fixed number of memory locations.
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Use existing patterns for holing data without generating new opcodes.
Question 6.
Imagine you need to perform a series of additions based on user input but can only utilize your created instruction set. Design the process.
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Reflect on how each arithmetic should be sequenced without looping features.

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