Difference between revisions of "Program counter"
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The Program counter is an essential part of a CPU. It holds the address of the next instruction to be fetched and executed. |
The Program counter is an essential part of a CPU. It holds the address of the next instruction to be fetched and executed. |
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The use of the expression Program Counter (abreviated PC) is very common and used by almost all Processor designers. |
The use of the expression Program Counter (abreviated PC) is very common and used by almost all Processor designers. |
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Latest revision as of 18:54, 17 June 2019
The Program counter is an essential part of a CPU. It holds the address of the next instruction to be fetched and executed. The use of the expression Program Counter (abreviated PC) is very common and used by almost all Processor designers. However, in some architectures such as x86, the term "Instruction Pointer" (IP) is used to describe the exact same thing.
