In the fast-paced world of computing, speed is paramount. The central processing unit (CPU) can execute instructions at an astonishing rate, with modern processors reaching speeds of up to 3 gigahertz (3 billion cycles …

Accessing data efficiently is a crucial aspect of programming, and it's facilitated by understanding various addressing modes. Here, I'll explore some of the different methods to access data, including absolute addressing, pointers, pointer+offset, and …

PC consists of processor, memory, registers Registers are processor components that hold data and addresses To execute a programme, the system copies data from the external device into the internal memory. The processor executes …

Diagram showing the sign, exponent and mantissa represented as fields in the IEEE 32-bit notation $$\text{If } N = -1.011 \times 2^{15}$$ $$\text{SIGN BIT: } 1$$ $$\text{EXPONENT BITS: } 15 + 127 = 142 …

Programmers write code in a high level language and the compiler converts it into assembly code and the assembler converts it into machine code Programming languages are byte-oriented but hardware is bit-oriented C provides …

1 bit = Sign 8 bit = Exponent with a bias of 127 23 bit = Mantissa (the 1 before the point is implicit) Diagram showing the sign, exponent and mantissa represented as fields …

This is the standard representation for floating point numbers in computers.It is called a floating point because there are different number of digits after the decimal point. The computers way of approximating floating point …