Practice Increment And Decrement Instructions (16.2) - Instruction Design

Practice: Increment and Decrement Instructions

Lesson 16.2Instruction Design

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Question 1.
What does the increment instruction do?
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Remember the definition of what increment means.
Question 2.
What instruction would you use to decrement a memory location?
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Consider how the section laid out specific instruction codes.
3Question 3.
What is the primary function of an increment instruction?
- Subtract one
- Add one
- No change
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Think about what it means to increase a value.
4Question 4.
True or False: The Zero Flag is set when the ALU operation result is not zero.
- True
- False
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Relate back to how Zero Flag is defined.
Question 5.
Craft a full assembly program that calculates the sum of a series of numbers using incrementing to progress through memory addresses.
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Focus on how memory addressing can be sequenced with proper adjustments.
Question 6.
Discuss how the limitation of address manipulation affects programming logic and give a practical example of a scenario unmanageable by the current instruction set.
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Consider scenarios where looping or conditional checking is necessary in program logic.

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