Section 5 Chapter 27 - The Processor Instruction Set

Question 1

Components of a machine code instruction

Answer 1

Opcode (+Addressing mode)

Operand

Question 2

Immediate addressing

Answer 2

The operand is the actual value

Question 3

Direct addresing

Answer 3

The operand is the memory address of the value

Question 4

Components of an opcode

Answer 4

Basic machine operation and addressing mode

Question 5

Processor instruction set

Answer 5

A set compromising all the instructions that are supported by the hardware. It is processor specific.