Practice Types Of Registers (19.1.5) - Introduction to the CPU - Computer Organisation and Architecture

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Question 1.
What is a general-purpose register?
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Think about what you can use directly in calculations.
Question 2.
Name a special-purpose register.
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What register holds the current instruction?
3Question 3.
What does the Program Counter (PC) do?
- Stores current instruction
- Holds address of next instruction
- Transfers data
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Think about which register helps in keeping track of where the CPU is in the instruction cycle.
4Question 4.
True or False: General-purpose registers can only store integer values.
- True
- False
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Consider the versatility of general-purpose registers.
Question 5.
Explain how the Program Counter (PC) and Instruction Register (IR) work together during the execution of a program.
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Trace the steps of instruction fetching and execution.
Question 6.
Discuss the implications of having insufficient general-purpose registers in a CPU’s design on performance.
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Think about data access speed and computation efficiency.

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