instruction counter

[in′strək·shən ‚kau̇nt·ər]

(computer science)

A counter that indicates the location of the next computer instruction to be interpreted. Also known as location counter; program counter; sequence counter.

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The Instruction CAMMU contains its own instruction counter, and will feed the next 4 bytes of the instruction stream into the instruction buffer every time the next instruction line of the instruction bus is clocked.

The Clipper (TM) Processor: instruction set architectures and implementation

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