Operand

Operand

The part of an instruction that designates where the central processing unit (CPU) will fetch or store data. The operand consists of the arguments, or parameters, of an assembly language instruction, assembler directive, or macro directive.

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Industry/Domain: Semiconductors
Category: Digital Signal Processors (DSP)
Company: Texas Instruments
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