Practice Program Execution Example (16.4) - Instruction Design - Computer Organisation and Architecture

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Question 1.
What is an opcode?
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Think about what each instruction requires to be recognized by the processor.
Question 2.
What does the accumulator do?
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Consider where the processor keeps its working values.
3Question 3.
What does the opcode represent?
- Instruction to execute
- Memory location
- Data type
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Think of the opcode as the directly typed instruction.
4Question 4.
True or False: Registers can hold values temporarily during processing.
- True
- False
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Consider the role of registers in computation.
Question 5.
Design a set of instruction codes (opcodes) that could support simple data processing functions like mean, median, and mode.
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Think about what each operation would require in terms of memory and data manipulation.
Question 6.
Explain how you would modify the existing instruction set to allow for looping through an array of data.
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Consider what elements are necessary for iterating over multiple data points.

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