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Addressing Modes

The way in which data in the main memory of a  Computer is addressed by a Processor is termed as the Addressing Mode used by the Processor. Such address of data is contained within the instruction word. It should be noted that data in memory is referenced in different ways. ______________________ ______________________ Instruction Word is a small  memory area that can hold  ( i ) an opcode ( ii ) and an entity of relevance to the opcode. ______________________ ______________________ The referee of data is the Processor. A location in main memory is referred to by the Processor. There are different ways in which reference to a piece of data is made. These ways of referring to data are: ( 1 ) Direct Addressing: When the address of data is given in binary form, a direct reference to data is made.  Address in binary form is a state that matches the deployed address standard at the native level. Direct Addressing requires us to do away with any kind of translation of...