MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following registers holds the intermediate arithmetic and logic results.
A
Memory Address Register
B
Memory Buffer Register
C
Accumulator
D
Program Counter
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -An accumulator is primarily used as a register in a CPU to store intermediate logical or arithmetic data in multistep calculations.

Detailed explanation-2: -Accumulator: An accumulator acts as a temporary storage location to hold an intermediate result in mathematical and logical calculations. Accumulator is a type of register present in a CPU (Central Processing Unit).

Detailed explanation-3: -Register A is quite often called as an Accumulator. An accumulator is a register for short-term, intermediate storage of arithmetic and logic data in a computer’s CPU (Central Processing Unit). In an arithmetic operation involving two operands, one operand has tobe in this register.

Detailed explanation-4: -The arithmetic/logic unit (ALU) of a processor performs integer arithmetic and logical operations.

Detailed explanation-5: -Accumulator: It is a register used for storing intermediate results of larger computation. It keeps track of result of any arithmetic or logic operation.

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