An instruction can be considered to be a command that has been issued to a computer to perform a particular operation. The instruction format contains various field in them such as:

★ Operation Code Field:

Also known as the op code field, this field is used to specify the operation to be performed for the instruction.

★ Address Field:

This field as its name specifies is used to designate the various addresses such as register address and memory address.

★ Mode field:

This field specifies as to how effective address is derives or how an operand is to perform.

★ For ex. ADD R0, R1. In this case the ADD is the operand whereas the R1, ans R0 are the address fields.