COMPUTER STUDIES/INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

COMPUTER DATA CONVERSION REGISTERS Registers are temporary storage area for instructions or data. They are not a part of memory; rather they are special additional storage locations that offer the advantage of

  Types of registers and their functions a. Memory Data Register (MDR) This is the register that contains the data to be stored in the computer memory or the data fetched from memory and ready to be processed by the CPU. It acts like a buffer and holds