A, special, high speed storage area within the CPU. All data must be represented in a register before it can be processed. For example, if two numbers are to be multiplied, both numbers must be in registers, and the result is also placed in a register. (The register can contain the address of a memory location where data is stored rather than the actual data itself.) Accumulator There is a central register in every processor …showed first 75 words of 982 total…

…showed last 75 words of 982 total…to the programmer's thinking. This is the basic motive of adding more and more translation layers up to higher level languages like C++ and Java and Visual Basic. These symbols are called instruction mnemonics. Therefore the mnemonic "add a to b" conveys more information to the reader. The dumb translator that will convert these mnemonics back to the original opcodes is a key program to be used throughout this course and is called the assembler.