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OCR: CENTRAL PROC ESSING UNIT 5-17 InfoWeb Instruc tio n9 What specifies the steps that the CPU must perform to accomplish task? computer accomplishes complex task by per rforming serie of very simple steps referred to Instructior instructions An instruction tells the computer to perform a sp ecific arithmetic logical, or control operation. Sets in struction has two parts th e do code and the operands An op code which is for operation code is a command prrd. for an operation such as add compare or jump The operands for ar instruction specify the data Or the address of the data for the oper- ation Let's look ar example an instruction do code operand In the instruction JMP M1 the do code S awr and the operand M1 The do code JMP means jump on go to different instruction. The operand M1 is the RAM ...