Computer architecture/Instruction Set Architectures

This is a lesson in in the course, Computer Architecture, which is a part of The School of Computer Science

Instruction Set Architectures
Now a days, There are many electrical and electronic circuits which can do many jobs like Adding two numbers,multiplying, copying, conditionals etc.. In computers these all circuits are kept in an order and are given certain number such that they can be accessed from registers in processor. In processor they are executed. Data required for doing any job, in case of adding two numbers, is fetched either from input devices like keyboard, serial port or from memory itself. This set of circuits are called Instructon Set. The number associated with each circuit is called Opcode.

To make use of these circuits. we have to instruct processor to call certain circuit using opcode. In real world problems, we dont use just adding and moving. We use all of them for accompaingn our work. In case of adding two numbers we move our input to registers in processor and call adding opcode and move the result to certain memory unit. This can be done by giving the opcodes in an order. This is called Assembly programming. Instuctions are kept in RAM and are executed one by one by processor.

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