Computer Organization

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Programming Level

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Missouri University of Science & Technology
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 Computer Organization & Design

• Programming Level
• Computer: A computer with a storage component that may contain
both data to be manipulated and instructions to manipulate the data
is called a stored program machine. This simply implies that the
user is able to change the sequence of operations on the data.
• Program: The sequence of operations performed on the data is
called a program. More formally, it is a finite set of instructions
that specify the operands, operations, and the sequence by which
processing has to occur.

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• Programming Level
• Instruction: An instruction is a group of bits that tells
the computer to perform a specific operation. It is
composed of two parts:
• Operation part
• Operand part

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• Programming Level
• Operation part (operation code) is a group of bits that
defines the action to be performed.
• For each machine the set of operations is limited and defined.
• In general, a machine with n bits as op.code is capable of
supporting 2n distinct operations each having a distinct
encoding as op.code.

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• Programming Level
• Operand part defines the element (s) needed for operation.
• Within the scope of a program, besides the op.code, one
needs four pieces of information (note majority of operations
are binary operations):
• 2 operands as sources
• 1 operand as a destination
• 1 operand to specify the location of the next instruction that should
be fetched.

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• Programming Level
• Depending on how many of these pieces of
information are explicitly defined, instructions are
grouped into 5 classes: 4, 3, 2, 1, and 0-address
instructions.

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• Programming Level
• 4 - address instruction: In which the operand part
explicitly contains four pieces of information.

• Meaning: add contents of A to B and store the result in C

and then fetch the next instruction from D.
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• Programming Level
• 3 - address instruction: Most of the instructions in a
program are sequential in nature. Therefore, it is
possible to eliminate the address of the next instruction
from the operand part and assume that the next
instruction is in the next consecutive location in main
memory. This brings the concept of 3-address
instruction.

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• Programming Level
• In case of 3 - address instruction a register, program
counter (PC), is used as a pointer to point to the next
instruction in sequence.
i) ADD A,B,C
• Meaning: add the contents of A to B and store the result in
C. In this case the program counter (PC) contains (i + 1).

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• Programming Level
• 2 - address instruction: If the result of the operation
is going to be stored in one of the sources then we will
end up with a so-called 2-address instruction.
i) ADD A,B
• Meaning: add contents of A to B and store it either in
A or B. In this case the PC contains (i+1).

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• Programming Level
• 1 - address instruction: In a 2-address instruction, if one of the
operands is being implicitly defined, then only one source is needed to
be explicitly defined in the operand part. This brings the concept of 1-
address instruction. This has been implemented by the introduction of a
register, accumulator (AC), which acts as a source as well as destination.
i) ADD A
• Meaning: add the contents of A to the AC and store the result in the AC,
PC contains (i + 1).

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• Programming Level
• 0 - address instruction: Both operands are implicitly defined and
hence just the op.code is explicitly defined in the instruction. This
implementation is the so-called stack machine, where operand
values are assumed to be on top of the stack.
i) ADD
• Meaning: pop stack twice, add the contents of the two top most
elements together and push the result back into the stack. PC
contains (i + 1).

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• Programming Level
• Calculate the length of 4, 3, 2, 1, and 0-address instructions for a
machine capable of supporting 15 instructions and a main memory
of 16K:
• 4-address instruction: 4 + 4 * 14 = 60
• 3-address instruction: 4 + 3 * 14 = 46
• 2-address instruction: 4 + 2 * 14 = 32
• 1-address instruction: 4 + 1 * 14 = 18
• 0-address instruction: 4

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• Programming Level
• In case of 2-address instructions, the destination operand loses its initial
value. So in many cases it is advisable to save its initial value: i.e.,

MOVE A to T (T is a temporary area)

• In case of 1-address instructions, the accumulator should be initialized

before performing operations. Two instructions, namely LOAD and
STORE are used to move data to and from accumulator:
LOAD A,
STORE A

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• Programming Level
• In case of 0-address instructions, stack should be
loaded first. Two instructions namely PUSH and POP
are used to move data between main memory and
stack:
PUSHA
POP A

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• Questions
• Compare and contrast 4, 3, 2, 1, and 0-address
instructions and programs against each other.
• Is it possible to write a pure 0-address program?
• What determines the length of PC?

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• Working Problem
• Write a 4, 3, 2, 1, and 0-address program for

Y = A ** B - (C + D)

Also calculate the program size based on the physical

configuration of the system as discussed before.

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• Working Problem
• 4-address program
1) EXP A,B,T1,2
2) ADD C,D,T2,3
3) SUB T1,T2,Y,4
4) ...
Instruction length = 60 bits
Program size = 3 * 60 = 180 bits

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• Working Problem
• 3 - Address Program
1) EXP A,B,T1 PC=2
2) ADD C,D,T2 PC=3
3) SUB T1,T2,YPC=4
4) ...
Instruction length = 46 bits
Program size = 3 * 46 = 138 bits

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• Working Problem
• 2 - Address Program
1) MOVE A, T1 PC=2
2) EXP T1, B PC=3
3) MOVE C, T2 PC=4
4) ADD T 2, D PC=5
5) SUB T 1 , T2 PC=6
6) MOVE T1, Y PC=7
7) ...
Instruction length = 32 bits
Program size = 6 * 32 = 192 bits

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• Working Problem
• 1 - Address Program
1) LOAD A PC=2
2) EXP B PC=3
3) STORE T1 PC=4
4) LOAD C PC=5
5) ADD D PC=6
6) STORE T2 PC=7
7) LOAD T1 PC=8
8) SUB T2 PC=9
9) STORE Y PC=10
10) ...
Instruction length = 18 bits
Program size = 9 * 18 = 162 bits

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• Working Problem
• 0 - Address Program
1) PUSH A PC=2
2) PUSH B PC=3
3) EXP PC=4
4) PUSH C PC=5
5) PUSH D PC=6
6) ADD PC=7
7) SUB PC=8
8) POP Y PC=9
9) ...

Program size = 18 * 5 + 3 * 4 = 102 bits

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• Programming Level
• The order of the instructions in a program should be the
same as the order of instructions in a post-fix format ─
Expression should be converted into a post-fix format.
• In-fix to post-fix conversion:
• Make fully parenthesized expression
• Move each operator to its nearest right parenthesis
• Delete all the left and right parentheses.

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• Programming Level
• Convert the following in-fix expressions to their post-fix
format:

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• Addressing Mode
• The way in which operands are specified in an instruction is called
the addressing mode. The ability to specify operands in different
ways brings a greater degree of flexibility to the computer.
• Implied Mode: In this mode operand(s) is(are) specified implicitly in the
definition of instruction.
ADD A Accumulator is in implied mode.
• Immediate Mode: In this mode operand value is defined in the instruction.
ADD 5

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• Addressing Mode
• Index Mode: In this mode address of the operand is determined
by two values:
• Contents of the index register
• Displacement
• Effective address - i.e., address of operand, is determined by adding the contents of index
register to the displacement. Index mode is very effective when handling arrays, tables, …

• Register Mode: In this mode operand value is contained in a

register which is referenced to by the instruction. Usually, such a
mode is used in the system with multiple registers.
ADD R1 To R2

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• Addressing Mode
• Direct Addressing Mode: In this mode the address of operand is explicitly defined in the
instruction.
ADD A TO B
Register mode and direct mode are conceptually the same.
• Indirect Mode: In this mode, the address of the address of operand value is contained in
the instruction. Therefore, one needs two fetches to memory in order to retrieve the
operand value.
ADD Aindirect TO B
• Multilevel of Indirections: This is an extension of indirect mode, in which instruction
contains the address of the address of the ... of operand.

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• Addressing Mode

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• Addressing Mode

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• Addressing Mode
• A variation of index mode is called base addressing
which allows re-locatability.
• Some systems allow a mixture of several addressing
modes, i.e., indirect-register mode.

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• Questions
• How are different addressing modes defined in an instruction?
• How is the level of indirection defined?
• What is the application of multi-level of indirection?
• If 5 and 6 are immediate values then are
ADD 5 to 6
ADD 5 to A
valid instructions?
• What is the format and length of a 2-address instruction, where:
instruction set is of size 15
memory is of size 16K words
system supports 3 different addressing modes (immediate, direct, and indirect).

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 Computer Organization & Design

• Study of a Simple Machine

• The simplicity of this machine is due to the simplicity of its control unit, the limited number of
operations it supports, and the simplicity of its instruction format.
• General Configuration
• Simple machine is a binary, 2s complement, 1-address machine.
• Main memory is of size 4096 * 16
• MAR is of length 12 bits
• MBR is of length 16 bits
• PC is of length 12 bits
• AC is of length 16 bits
• AC is extended by 1 bit register called E-bit (extended bit).
• Instruction register is composed of two parts:
• OPR 3-bit register
• I 1-bit register

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• Study of a Simple Machine

• Instructions are of length 16:
• 4-bits to represent operation part
• 12-bits to represent operand part

Mode Bit 0 1 3 4 15

Op. Code

Operation Part Operand Part 35

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• Study of a Simple Machine

• The simple machine supports 2 types of addressing modes:
• Direct (0)
• Indirect (1)
• Instruction Formats: Instruction set is partitioned into three
groups
• Memory reference instructions
• Register reference instructions
• Input-Output instructions

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• Study of a Simple Machine

• Memory reference instructions: These instructions
explicitly refer to a location in memory as the operand.
• 7-instructions are in this group:
AND (000), ADD (001), LDA (010), STA (011), BUN (100)
BSA (101), ISZ (110)

Addressing
Mode Bit
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Operation Code Operand Part
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• Study of a Simple Machine

Symbol Code Description
AND 000 And
ADD 001 Add
LDA 010 Load
STA 011 Store
BUN 100 Unconditional Branch
BSA 101 Branch and save address
ISZ 110 Inc. and Skip if Zero

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• Study of a Simple Machine

• Register reference instructions: These instructions explicitly
refer to a register as the operand.
• Bit pattern in operand part determines the register involved
and the exact nature of the operation.
• 12-instructions are in this group:
CLA (7800), CIR (7080), SNA (7008), CLE (7400), CIL (7040),

SZA (7004), CMA (7200), INC (7020), SZE (7002), CME (7100), SPA (7010), HLT (7001)

0111 Operand Part

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• Study of a Simple Machine

Symbol Code (Hex) Description
CLA 7800 Clear Ac
CLE 7400 Clear E
CMA 7200 Complement AC
CME 7100 Complement E
CIR 7080 Circular shift right AC
CIL 7040 Circular shift left AC
INC 7020 Increment AC
SPA 7010 Skip if Positive AC
SNA 7008 Skip if Negative AC
SZA 7004 Skip if Zero AC
SZE 7002 Skip if Zero E 40

HLT 7001 Halt

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• Study of a Simple Machine

Symbol Semantic
CLA AC  0
CLE E0
CMA AC  AC
E
CME E
CIR AC  shr AC, AC(15)  E, E  AC(0)
CIL AC  shl AC, AC(0)  E, E  AC(15)
INC AC  AC + 1
SPA If (AC(15) = 0) then (PC  PC + 1)
SNA If (AC(15) = 1) then (PC  PC + 1)
SZA If (AC = 0) then (PC  PC + 1)
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HLT S  0 (S is a start-Stop flip flop)

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• Study of a Simple Machine

• Input-Output instructions: Instructions in this group
are used to carry out the I/O operations.
• Bit pattern in operand part determines the nature of I/O
operation, i.e., type of I/O operation, type of I/O
device, and testing.

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• Study of a Simple Machine

• In general, the instruction set of a simple machine covers the
following classes of operations:
• Arithmetic, Logic, and Shift operations.
• Memory access operations.
• Control transfer operations.
• I/O operations.
• Start/Stop operations.

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• Study of a Simple Machine ─ Flow of Control and Data

1) Program and data are read in and stored in main memory.
2) An instruction is fetched from main memory.
3) Fetched instruction is decoded and investigated.
4) Operand(s) is(are) fetched.
5) Operation is performed.
6) Steps 2-5 are repeated up to the end of program.
Steps 2-5 are called the instruction cycle.
Program counter is used to fetch an instruction.
Usually steps 2 and 3 are called instruction fetch cycle and steps 4 and 5 are called instruction execute
cycle.
In order to execute a program, the system goes into a sequence of instruction cycles. Within each cycle
an instruction is fetched, decoded, and executed.

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• Study of a Simple Machine ─ Flow of Control and Data

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• Study of a Simple Machine

• At each moment the system should know exactly which cycle it is in. In the simple machine this will
be accomplished by the contents of 2 Flip Flops, called F, R Flip Flops.
FR Nmonic
00 C0 (Fetch cycle)
01 C1 (Indirect cycle)
10 C2 (Execute cycle)
11 C3 (Interrupt cycle)
• Each cycle is a collection of several -operations. The -operation in each cycle should be executed
in an orderly fashion. This order is enforced by means of a clock. In our simple machine each cycle
contains four clock pulses.

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• Study of a Simple Machine

• Fetch Cycle
• Program counter is used to fetch an instruction from main memory.
• Address of the next instruction is calculated.
• The fetched instruction is interpreted.
• MAR  address of next instruction (PC)
• MBR  (M[MAR])
• IR  (MBR)
• PC  (PC) + 1* (The instruction length is assumed to be the same as the word
length).

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Main
Memory

3 2
1
MAR PC

2
MBR +1

4
IR
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Control Unit
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• Study of a Simple Machine

• Fetch Cycle
c0t0: MAR  (PC)
c0t1: MBR  (M[MAR]), PC  (PC) + 1
c0t2: OPR  (MBR(op)), I  (MBR(I))
q'7Ic0t3: R1
(q7+I')c0t3: F1

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• Indirect cycle
c1t0: MAR  (MBR(ADDRESS))
c1t1: MBR  (M[MAR])
c1t2: idle
c1t3: F  1, R  0
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• Study of a Simple Machine ─ Execute cycle

• AND A
q0c2t0: MAR  (MBR(address))
q0c2t1: MBR  (M[MAR])
q0c2t2: AC  (AC)  (MBR)
q0c2t3: ...

• ADD A
q1c2t0: MAR  (MBR(address))
q1c2t1: MBR  (M[MAR])
q1c2t2: AC  (AC) + (MBR)
q1c2t3: ...
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• Study of a Simple Machine ─ Execute cycle

• LDA A
q 2 c 2t 0 : MAR  (MBR(address))
q 2 c 2t 1 : MBR  (M[MAR])
q 2 c 2t 2 : AC  (MBR)
q 2 c 2t 3 : ...

• STA A
q3c2t0 : MAR  (MBR(address))
q3c2t1 : MBR  (AC)
q3c2t2 : M[MAR]  (MBR)
q3c2t3 : ...
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• Study of a Simple Machine ─ Execute cycle

• BUN A
q 4c 2 t0 : PC  (MBR(address))
q 4c 2 t1 : idle
q 4c 2 t2 : idle
q 4c 2 t3 : ...

• ISZ A
q 5c 2 t0 : MAR  (MBR(address))
q 5c 2 t1 : MBR  (M[MAR])
q 5c 2 t2 : MBR  (MBR) + 1
q 5c 2 t3 : M[MAR]  (MBR), if (MBR=0) then PC  (PC)+1 54
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• Study of a Simple Machine ─ Execute cycle

• BSA A
q6c2t0: MAR  (MBR(address)), MBR(address)  (PC)
q6c2t1: PC  (MAR)
q6c2t2: M[MAR]  MBR, PC  (PC) + 1
q6c2t3: ...

PC
B BSA A
(B + 1)

MBR
A A B+1
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• Study of a Simple Machine ─ Execute cycle

• Register reference instructions: Format of execute cycle for instructions in this class is almost uniform:
• CLA:
q7I’c2t0(MBR5): AC  0
q7I’c2t1(MBR5): idle
q7I’c2t2 (MBR5): idle
q7I’c2t3 (MBR5): ...

• CLE:
q7I’c2t0 (MBR6): E  0
q7I’c2t1 (MBR6): idle
q7I’c2t2 (MBR6): idle
q7I’c2t3 (MBR6): ...

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• Study of a Simple Machine ─ Execute cycle

• The uniform execute cycles for instructions in this
class suggest a simplified control unit.
• Practically every register reference instruction can be
executed in one clock pulse.

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• Study of a Simple Machine ─ I/O Operations

A computer can serve no useful purpose unless it communicates
with the outside world. Instructions and data are received via input
devices and results are transferred to the outside world through
output devices.
I/O devices are either mainly mechanical devices or partially
mechanical devices.
It is known that mechanical devices are slower than electronic
devices. This suggests that I/O devices (I/O operations) are much
slower than the CPU and main memory (central) operations.

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• Study of a Simple Machine ─ I/O Operations

• Whenever several devices with different speeds are cooperating
and/or competing over resources two major problems could arise:
• Data could be lost.
• Efficiency of faster units could be compromised.

• Therefore to preserve the integrity and efficiency, one has to devise

proper mechanisms to:
• Synchronize I/O operations with the operations in main frame.
• Utilize resources, i.e., CPU and main memory, efficiently.

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• Study of a Simple Machine ─ I/O Operations

• Synchronization scheme
INP R OU TR
Information
Input Unit Output Unit Result
Co m p u te r

IF LAG O FLAG

Initially: IFLAG = 0 Initially: OFLAG = 1

New data can be OUTR can be
IFLAG = 0  Read into INPR OFL AG = 1  Written to
New Data in
IFLAG = 1  New data cannot be
Read in
OFL AG = 0  OUTR

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• Synchronization scheme
Input device: Output Device:
AA. If IFLAG =1 then goto AA. CC. If OFLAG =1 then goto CC.
INPR  "data", IFLAG  1. "data"  OUTR, OFLAG  1.

Computer: Computer:
BB. If IFLAG =1 then PC  PC+1, DD. If OFLAG =1 then PC  PC+1,
Goto BB. Goto DD.
AC  INPR, IFLAG  0. OUTR  AC, OFLAG  0.

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• Study of a Simple Machine ─ I/O Operations

• Let us introduce an interrupt-bit (INT). At the end of
each execute cycle, the contents of INT is investigated.
If INT = 0, CPU continues its normal sequence of
operations. If INT = 1, then control transfers to a
specific procedure (Interrupt Handling Program).
• In Interrupt Handling Program, the proper actions
needed to resolve the interrupt will be performed.

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• Study of a Simple Machine ─ I/O Operations

• In simple machine at the end of each execute cycle - i.e., c 2qit3 (0≤i≤7), we have:
c2qit3: If INT  (IFLAG V OFLAG) = 1 then R  1,
If [INT  (IFLAG V OFLAG)=0] then F  0

• In the interrupt cycle:

c3t0: MBR(address)  (PC), PC  0
c3t1: MAR  0, PC  (PC) + 1
c3t2: M[MAR]  (MBR), INT  0
c3t3: F  0, R  0

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• Study of a Simple Machine ─ Interrupt

• An interrupt mechanism is a built-in facility. It is a signal to
the processor that causes the processor, after competing its
current instruction, to fetch the next instruction from a
special location in memory.
• The occurrence of an interrupt allows the processor to finish
what it is currently doing with its program and then simply
leave that program and begin executing another one.

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• Study of a Simple Machine ─ Interrupt

• The concept of program interrupt is used to handle a
variety of problems which arise out of the normal
program sequence.
• Program interrupt refers to the transfer of control from
the currently running program to another service
program as a result of an external or internal generated
request. Control might return to the original program
after the service program is executed.

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• Study of a Simple Machine ─ Interrupt

• Types of Interrupt
• External Interrupt is initiated mainly by external devices, such as
I/O devices, to the main frame.
• Internal Interrupt is initiated as a result of executing an instruction.
• Software Interrupt is initiated by executing an instruction. It is a
special instruction call that behaves like an interrupt rather than a
subroutine call. It can be initiated by the programmer at any time in
the program.

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• Study of a Simple Machine ─ Interrupt

• Internal Interrupt (Examples):
• Arithmetic results out of range
• Parity error
• Illegal operation code
• Stack overflow/underflow
• Out of memory access
• External Interrupt (Examples):
• Input/output devices started earlier is finished
• Parity error
• Another processor needs attention
• Operator at console

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• Questions
• What is the application of BSA?
• In the simple machine, what is the last instruction of a subroutine?
• How does the interrupt facility improve the efficiency of I/O
operations?
• Interrupt vector?
• Interrupt within interrupt?
• Format of interrupt handling program?

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• Programming Level
Addressing Mode: The way operand is defined in the instruction.
Effective address: The address of the operand value.
Scratch pad memory: A collection of the resisters organized and
accessed like the main memory words.
Base addressing: This is similar to the index addressing. The contents
of a register (base register) will be added to every addresses in a
program. Before the execution of the program the contents of the base
register will be loaded. This allows the program to be loaded
anywhere in the main memory. The contents of the base register
should be guarded during the course of the program execution.
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• Programming Level
• Relative addressing mode: The effective address is defined relative to the
current contents of the program counter.
• Instruction set: The collection of instruction supported by the machine.
• Instruction cycle: The sequence of micro-operations needed to fetch and
execute and instruction.
• Instruction fetch cycle: A subset of the instruction cycle to allow to fetch
the next machine instruction.
• Machine instruction: Binary representation of the assembly instruction.

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• Programming Level
• Instruction execute cycle: A subset of the instruction cycle
that facilitates the execution of a machine instruction.
• Address generation cycle: A subset of the instruction cycle
that calculates the effective address of the operand.
• Interrupt Handling Program: A collection of system routines
developed for handling different variation of interrupts.

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• Programming Level
• Precise interrupt:During the course of the execution of the
program, the location of interrupt can be determined.
• Imprecise interrupt:
During the course of the execution of the
program the approximate position of the interrupt can be
determined.
• Extended opcode: A technique that allows to extend the
instruction set by using part of the operand section of the
instruction as a modifier to the op-code.

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• Programming Level
• Basic Block: A sequence of sequential instructions, i.e., a
sequence of instructions without any branches (except
possibly the last instruction).
• Program Counter: A special purpose register that holds the
address of the next instruction in sequence.
• Stack: A form of data structure that supports last-in-first-
out policy.

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• Questions
Rewrite the indirect cycle to allow multilevel of indirections.
Within the scope of the simple machine, it is possible to
increase the set of the register reference instructions?
The length of the opcode for the simple machine is 3. So by a
simple calculation, the simple machine should have an
instruction set of size 8! However, as we have seen, the simple
machine has an instruction set of size 31! Explain.
What is the application of BSA?

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• Questions
• Does the simple machine support a recursive call?
• What is the application of ISZ?
• Within the scope of the simple machine, what is the last instruction of a
subroutine?
• For the simple machine, write an assembly program to perform A - B?
• Does the synchronization scheme, discussed for the I/O operation,
improve computer utilization?
• How does the interrupt facility improve the efficiency of I/O operation?

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 Computer Organization & Design

• Questions
• What is a “subroutine”?
• What is a “subroutine call”?
• What is the difference between a subroutine call and a
goto statement?
• What is a “Jump-and Link” Instruction?

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