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ISRO 2007- ECE Program Counter

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When a program is being executed in an 8085 microprocessor, its Program Counter contains

a) The number of instructions in the current program that have already been executed

b) The total number of instructions in the program being executed

c) The memory address of the instruction that is being currently executed

d) The memory address of the instruction that is to be executed next
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The function of the program counter is to point to the memory address from which the next byte is to be fetched.

Option D should be correct.
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