What is a program counter? What is its use?

Answer Posted / saptadip

It is a 16 bit special function register in the 8085
microprocessor.It keeps track of the the next memory
adderess of the instruction that is to be executed once the
execution of the current instruction is completed.In other
words, it holds the address of the memory location of the
next instruction when the current instruction is executed by
the microprocessor.

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