Assembly Language and MIPS Architecture Quiz

It deals with the physical arrangement of hardware components

It focuses on the structure and behavior of a computer system

It only refers to the software components of a system

It has nothing to do with hardware performance

Consists of binary code

Requires less understanding of hardware

Easier to read than assembly language

Portable across different systems

Combines object files with link libraries

Converts assembly language programs into object files

Allows you to trace the execution of a program

Translates high-level programs to machine code

.DATA

.TEXT

.GLOBL

.BYTE

Object-oriented programming

Automatic memory management

High-level readability

Direct execution by hardware

To define data and constants

To debug the program

To combine object files into a single executable

To convert assembly language to machine code

Registers are not used in assembly language

There are 16 general-purpose registers

Registers are 64-bit wide

Registers can be referred to by name or number

To define data segments

To obtain services from the operating system

To combine object files

To convert assembly to machine code

High-Level Instruction Set

General Purpose Instruction Set

Reduced Instruction Set Computer

Complex Instruction Set Computer

A memory address

A high-level programming instruction

A low-level machine instruction

A variable name