GLOSSARY
Absolute address A specific address (identification number) permanently assigned to a storage location, a device or a register by the designer.
Address A unique identification number of some source or destination data or an instruction.
Addressing mode The manner in which the processor determines the operand addresses within an instruction.
Address space The number of locations in the memory which can be located by the addressing technique used by the processor.
Architecture The organizational structure of a processor or the computer system.
Arithmetic and logic unit (ALU) A digital circuit which performs arithmetic and logic operations on operands.
Assembler A program that translates assembly language program into a machine language ...
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