Questions

  1. ISA stands for ________.
    What is an ISA? What information is included in an ISA?

  2. What is a microprocessor?

  3. What do you think microprocessors are made of?

  4. What is the relationship between a microprocessor and assembly language?

  5. What are you expecting to learn from this class?

  6. The three types of instructions in LC-3 are ________, ________, and ________.

  7. In the LC-3, there are 8 ________________ that serve as on-chip memory.

  8. The BR (branch) instruction reads from the ________ to find out if the ________ was Negative, Zero, or Positive.

  9. In the line of code BRnz LABEL, when would the branch be taken?

  10. Can the LC-3 do everything the new Intel Pentium microprocessor can do?

  11. Name 3 operation instructions.

  12. Name 2 data movement instructions.

  13. Name 3 or 4 control instructions.

  14. What information is specified in the ADD instruction?

Problems

  1. What is 73.0 in binary?
    176.5?
    90.375?
    63.6875?