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COA Address Homework

The document discusses stored program organization in computers. It describes how the ability to store and execute instructions is key to general-purpose computers. The simplest organization has one processor register and instructions with two parts - one specifying the operation and the other specifying an address. It shows a figure illustrating stored program organization. It also describes addressing modes like direct and indirect operands, and how instructions can be stored in 16-bit words with 4 bits for operation code and 12 bits for operand addresses in a 4096-word memory.

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COA Address Homework

The document discusses stored program organization in computers. It describes how the ability to store and execute instructions is key to general-purpose computers. The simplest organization has one processor register and instructions with two parts - one specifying the operation and the other specifying an address. It shows a figure illustrating stored program organization. It also describes addressing modes like direct and indirect operands, and how instructions can be stored in 16-bit words with 4 bits for operation code and 12 bits for operand addresses in a 4096-word memory.

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Stored Program Organization

• The ability to store and execute instructions is the most important property of a general-
purpose computer. That type of stored program concept is called the stored program
organization.
• The simplest way to organize a computer is to have one processor register and an instruction
code format with two parts. the first part specifies the operation to be performed and the
second specifies an address.
• The below figure shows the stored program organization.

Addressing Modes
• Direct operand - an operand stored in the register or in the memory location specified.
• Indirect operand - an operand whose address is stored in the register or in the memory
location specified.
• For a memory unit with 4096 words we need 12 bits to specify an address since 2^12= 4096.
• If we store each instruction code in one 16-bit memory word, we have available four bits for
the operation code to specify one out of 16 possible operations, and 12 bits to specify the
address of an operand.

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