MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

COMPUTER ORGANIZATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The ALU makes use of ____ to store the intermediate results.
A
Register
B
Accumulator
C
Stack
D
Heap
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In CPU, accumulator register is used to store intermediate arithmetic and logic results.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answers. Explanation: The ALU is the computational center of the CPU. It performs all the mathematical and logical operations. In order to perform better it uses some internal memory spaces to store immediate results.

Detailed explanation-3: -The arithmetic logic unit (ALU) performs the arithmetic and logical functions that are the work of the computer. There are other general purpose registers that hold the input data, and the accumulator receives the result of the operation. The instruction register contains the instruction that the ALU is to perform.

Detailed explanation-4: -Accumulator: An accumulator acts as a temporary storage location to hold an intermediate result in mathematical and logical calculations.

Detailed explanation-5: -An accumulator is a type of register for short-term, intermediate storage of arithmetic and logic data in a computer’s central processing unit (CPU). However, the term is rarely used in reference to contemporary CPUs, having been replaced around the turn of the millennium by the term register.

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