In assembly language, a backward reference is when a program refers to a label or memory location that appears earlier in the code. This is commonly used for implementing loops or conditional jumps where the target instruction is located before the jump instruction in memory. Backward references are resolved during the assembly process to calculate relative offsets.
The possible states that define an instruction execution are as follows: Instruction address calculation - Determine the address of the next instruction to be executed. Instruction fetch - Read instruction from its memory location into the processor. Instruction operation decoding - Analyze instruction to determine type of operation to be performed and operand to be used. Operand address calculation - If the operation involves reference to an operand in memory or available via I/O, then determine the address of the operand. Operand fetch - Fetch the operand from memory or read it in from I/O. Data operation - Perform the operation indicated in the instruction. Operand store - Write the result into memory or out to I/O.
Load instruction means to load the instruction from the memory to the processor (accumulator).. But store instruction is opposite of it,it stores information from accumulator to the memory.
The instructions have to remain in memory at all times while the program is running. They get there by loading the entire program into memory. The CPU's instruction registers keep track of the current instruction and the next instruction.
Memory address FFFF0h is the memory address always assigned to the first instruction in the ROM BIOS
The instruction opcode is a type of data contained in memory, pointed to by the PC (Program Counter) register.
Fetch
Indirect addressing needs 2 reference to memory
twice
Direct addressing involves specifying the exact memory address where data is stored or fetched. Indirect addressing involves using a memory address that points to where the data is stored or fetched. In direct addressing, the actual data is accessed, while in indirect addressing, a reference to the data's location is accessed.
1.Fetch the most instructions from memory. 2.Read an apparend if required by the instruction.(Apparend is a quantity to be operated as directed by its associated instruction.) 3.Execute the instruction.(Do what the instruction says.) 4.Write the result backe into memory.(If required by instruction.)
memory reference instructions as micro operation