Instructions
ä What are the basic instruction categories?
1. Data transfers
2. Arithmetic and bit manipulation operations
3. Program control transfer operations
1. Data transfer: transfers data between
ä memory and registers
ä between IO components and registers
ä between registers
ä Some processors support block transfers to
move more than one word
ä Ex: MOV destination, source
ä Move the contents of source to the destination
ä These instructions do not usually modify flags