program counter

C53108
concept

A program counter is a processor register that holds the memory address of the next instruction to be fetched and executed in a program’s sequence.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
program counter canonical 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: program counter
Generated description
A program counter is a processor register that holds the memory address of the next instruction to be fetched and executed in a program’s sequence.

Instances (1)

Instance Via concept surface
R7 (program counter)