What is Program counter? - Program counter holds the address of either the first byte of the next instruction to be fetched for execution or the address of the next byte of a multi byte instruction, which has not been completely fetched. In both the cases it gets incremented automatically one by one as the instruction bytes get fetched. Also Program register keeps the address of the next instruction.

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Answer: Program counter holds the address of either the first byte of the next instruction to be fetched for execution or the address of the next byte of a multi byte instruction, which has not been completely fetched. In both the cases it gets incremented automatically one by one as the instruction bytes get fetched. Also Program register keeps the address of the next instruction.

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Program counter holds the address of either the first byte of the next instruction to be fetched for execution or the address of the next byte of a multi byte instruction, which has not been completely fetched. In both the cases it gets incremented automatically one by one as the instruction bytes get fetched. Also Program register keeps the address of the next instruction. Source: CoolInterview.com

PC holds the address of the next instruction to be executed.... it directly fetches the next address from the main memory... their by increasing the execution speed of the processor Source: CoolInterview.com

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Intially PC holds the starting address of the moniter program(program laoded in ROM)or as soon the reset pin is pressed Source: CoolInterview.com

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Program Counter is a special purpose register which stores the address of the next instruction to be executed. Source: CoolInterview.com

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it stores the information in the instruction set regarding the position of the cpu. Source: CoolInterview.com

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Program counter is 16 bit register which hold the address of next instruction to be executed. Source: CoolInterview.com

Answered by: Nilam | Date: 7/14/2010 |

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