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    UNIT II

    Machine Instructions & Programmes


    Introduction
    To execute a program, the program and data must be stored on memory.

    Memory Locations and Addresses

    Memory consists of a collection of storage locations each with a unique identifier called an
    “address”. Data can be transferred to and fro as a group of bits called “word”. A word can be
    of 8 bits or 16 bits or 32-bits and so on.

    Address Space

    Each word is identified by an address. The total number of uniquely identifiable locations in
    memory is called “Address Space”.
    Byte Addressability
    • A computer in which each byte stored can be addressed individually is
    called as byte addressability.

    Big-Endian Assignment
    • Lower byte addresses are used for the most significant bytes of the word.
    • Little-Endian Assignment
    • Lower byte addresses are used for the less significant bytes of the word.

    Word Alignment
    • The number of bytes in a word is power of 2.
    • word length is 16-bit - byte addresses are 0,2,4,
    • 32-bit - byte addresses are 0,4,8,
    • 64-hit - byte addresses are 0,8,16,...
    Accessing Numbers, Characters and Character Strings

    • Numbers It occupies one word and can be accessed in the memory by using its word
    address.

    • Characters It can be accessed by their byte address.

    • Character Strings It can be accessed by successive byte locations.

    Memory Operations
     
    • Both program instructions and data operands are stored in the memory.

    The operations are


    • Load: Transfers the contents of the memory into processor.

    • Store: Transfers the contents from processor to memory location.


    Instruction and Instruction Sequencing
    • An instruction is a command to the processor to perform a given task.

    Four categories of instructions types are,

    1. Data Movement,

    2. Data Storage,

    3. Data Processing,

    4. Program Sequencing and Control,


    Register Transfer Notation
    • The transfer of information from one location to another in the computer.
    • The locations may be memory location processor registers.
    • The contents of a location are denoted as.

    R1  [LOC], R3  [R1]+[R2]

    Assembly Language Notation

    It is used to represent machine instructions and programs.

    Move Loc, R1 - Transfers contents from memory location to R1.


    Basic Instruction Types
    Based upon the number of operands, the instruction types are,

    1. Three-Address Instruction.

    ADD R1, R2, R3 ie., R1  R2+R3

    2. Two-Address Instruction.

    ADD R1, R2 ie., R1  R1+R2

    3. One-Address Instructions.

    ADD M ie., AC  AC+M[AR]

    4. Zero-Address Instructions.

    ADD, Load, Store etc.

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