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Microprocessor instruction set

Hi could you explain to me the role of the microprocessor instruction set.

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  • Jazz13 May 26, 2009

    What do you mean by and all their variations? Do you mean like the Arithmetic and logic instructions etc.

  • Jazz13 May 26, 2009

    So what you are saying is that the role of the microprocessor instruction set is to carry out a list of instructions that the processor can execute.

  • Jazz13 May 26, 2009

    Thank you

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An instruction set is a list of all the instructions, and all their variations, that a processor (or in the case of a virtual machine, an interpreter) can execute.
Instructions include:

  • Arithmetic such as add and subtract
  • Logic instructions such as and, or, and not
  • Data instructions such as move, input, output, load, and store
  • Control flow instructions such as goto, if ... goto, call, and return.
An instruction set, or instruction set architecture (ISA), is the part of the computer architecture related to programming, including the native data types, instructions, registers, addressing modes, memory architecture, interrupt and exception handling, and external I/O. An ISA includes a specification of the set of opcodes (machine language), the native commands implemented by a particular CPU design.

  • Anonymous May 26, 2009

    YES

  • Anonymous May 26, 2009

    Microprocessor usually refer to 8bit processors such as Intel 8085 and Zilog Z80.

    For a more detailed information on microprocessor instruction set use Google to search on Microprocessor instruction set

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