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AQA Assembly Language

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Understand and apply the basic machine-code/assembly-language operations — load, store, add, subtract, compare, branching, logical bitwise operators and shifts, and halt — using the AQA assembly language instruction set with immediate and direct addressing. Hand-trace short programs and write sim…

Lesson outline

  1. Retrieval: Opcodes, Operands and Addressing (from last lesson)
  2. Key Vocabulary
  3. Hinge Question: Opcode or Operand?
  4. Why Do We Still Write Assembly Language?
  5. LDR and STR — Moving Data Between Register and Memory
  6. Hinge Question: LDR or STR?
  7. Instruction Format: Opcode + Operand(s)
  8. Task: Fill in the Instructions
  9. ADD and SUB — Direct or Immediate
  10. Hinge Question: What Does CMP Actually Do?
  11. CMP and Branching
  12. Task: True or False — Branching
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