Hardware Flashcards

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Program Counter

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A counter that keeps track of the memory address of which instruction is to be executed next.

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Memory Address Register

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The address in the main memory that is currently being read or written.

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Current instruction register

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A temporary holding area for the instruction that has just been fetched from memory.

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