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There are special purpose storage locations within  the CPU. What are they explain ?

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Registers are special purpose storage locations within the CPU. They are temporary storage locations. The processing power of a CPU depends on register. Registers appears with storage capacity of 8 bits, 16 bits, 32 bits an 64 bits. They accept, store and transfer data from the CPU at a very high speed.

Program Counter : This register stores the memory address of the next instruction to be executed by the CPU. 

Instruction Register : The instruction to be executed is stored in this register. 

Memory Address Register : The address on the memory location from which data has to be read is stored here. 

Memory Buffer Register : The data read from the location specified by the MAR is stored in this register. 

General Purpose Registers : These are used to store the result and intermediate results during a processing.



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