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Authors:
Linda Null ,julia Lobur
Chapter:
Introduction
Exercise:
Review Of Essential Terms And Concepts
Question:2 | ISBN:9780763704445 | Edition: 3

Question

What is an ISA?

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Answer

An Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is the part of the computer architecture related to programming (like machine language). It includes the following

          1. Native data types,

           2. Instructions

           3. Registers

           4. Addressing modes,

           5. Memory architecture,

           6. Interrupt and exception handling, and

           7. External I/O.

 

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