{"id":2768,"date":"2024-06-24T12:18:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T12:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odeacademy.in\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2024-06-24T12:18:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T12:18:27","slug":"most-common-registers-used-in-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/most-common-registers-used-in-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Common Registers Used In Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"

list of some of the most common registers used in a basic computer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Register<\/th>\nSymbol<\/th>\nNumber of bits<\/th>\nFunction<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Data register<\/td>\nDR<\/td>\n16<\/td>\nHolds memory operand<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Address register<\/td>\nAR<\/td>\n12<\/td>\nHolds address for the memory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Accumulator<\/td>\nAC<\/td>\n16<\/td>\nProcessor register<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Instruction register<\/td>\nIR<\/td>\n16<\/td>\nHolds instruction code<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Program counter<\/td>\nPC<\/td>\n12<\/td>\nHolds address of the instruction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Temporary register<\/td>\nTR<\/td>\n16<\/td>\nHolds temporary data<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Input register<\/td>\nINPR<\/td>\n8<\/td>\nCarries input character<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Output register<\/td>\nOUTR<\/td>\n8<\/td>\nCarries output character<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The Memory unit has a capacity of 4096 words, and each word contains 16 bits.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Data Register (<\/strong>DR)<\/strong> contains 16 bits which hold the operand read<\/strong> from the memory location.<\/li>\n
  2. Memory Address Register (<\/strong>MAR)<\/strong> contains 12 bits which hold the address for the memory location.<\/li>\n
  3. Program Counter (<\/strong>PC)<\/strong> also contains 12 bits which hold the address of the next instruction<\/strong> to be read from memory after the current instruction is executed.<\/li>\n
  4. Accumulator (<\/strong>AC)<\/strong> register is a general purpose processing register.<\/li>\n
  5. Instruction register (<\/strong>IR)<\/strong> is placed in the Instruction read from memory.<\/li>\n
  6. Temporary Register (<\/strong>TR)<\/strong> is used for holding the temporary data during the processing.<\/li>\n
  7. Input Registers (<\/strong>IR)<\/strong> holds the input characters given by the user.<\/li>\n
  8. Output Registers (<\/strong>OR)<\/strong> holds the output after processing the input data.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    list of some of the most common registers used in a basic computer Register Symbol Number of bits Function Data register DR 16 Holds memory operand Address register AR 12 Holds address for the memory Accumulator AC 16 Processor register Instruction register IR 16 Holds instruction code Program counter PC 12 Holds address of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[110,18,14],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-post","tag-computer","tag-computer-architecture","tag-computer-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2773,"href":"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions\/2773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thequickknowledge.com\/exam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}