Appendix 9—Comprehensive Glossary
Absolute Addressing: Addressing in which the instruction contains the address of the data to be operated on.
Accumulator: A parallel register in a microcontroller that is the focal point of all arithmetic and logic operations.
ADC: An analog-to-digital converter is a device that converts a continuous quantity to a discrete digital number.
Address: An address is an identifier for a memory location, at which a computer program or a hardware device can store data and later retrieve it.
Address Bus: An address bus is a unidirectional, 16-bit bus that carries the 16-bit address code from the processor to the memory unit to select the memory location that the processor is accessing for a READ or WRITE operation. ...
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