9.4.

4 Worksheet 9

1 Explain the key steps the

processor carries out when it is
executing a computer program.

Each cycle retrieves an

instruction from memory
(fetch), translates it into a
series of commands (decode),
and then performs the
required action (execute).

2 The following program is

stored in main memory, for
the CPU to execute:
Input num1
Input num2
num3 = num1 + num2

Explain how this short program would

be held in computer memory and how
the control unit would carry out this
program.

The short program is stored in main

memory as binary instructions that
the CPU executes. The control unit
reads these instructions and
performs corresponding operations.
The program has three instructions
are num1 -retrieves input num1 from
the input device, num2 - retrieves
input num2 and adds them, resulting
in num3 = num1 + num2. The control
unit completes the program after
executing the third instruction.