Flip Flops & Registers

Question 1

What is Flip Flops

Answer 1

A bistable electronic device that has two states set (1) and reset (0). It will maintain its state until it receives an input pulse called a trigger

Question 2

Registers

Answer 2

Fast memory locations internal to processor for keeping temporary , working memory or storage

Question 3

Types of Registers

Answer 3

General Purpose
Stack Pointers
Flags
Status Registers

Question 4

Program Counter

Answer 4

contains address of next instruction to be fetched from memory

Question 5

Current Instruction register

Answer 5

contains the current instruction being decoded and executed

Question 6

Memory Address Register

Answer 6

memory address of data being currently accessed

Question 7

Memory Data Register

Answer 7

Holds data that was read from/written to main memory. Contains the data to be stored or to be fetched from storage

Question 8

The Accumulator

Answer 8

answers many operations are stored temporarily before going on main memory.

Question 9

Clock Speed

Answer 9

Speed at whicg CPU or microprocessor exectues instructions. Measured in Hrtz