The interface between software and the processor: instructions, registers, addressing and number formats, with MIPS, RISC-V and ARM as examples.
Area: Computer Engineering
Covered in
- 5EIB0 Computation II: MIPS Recap, MIPS Pipelined, Representing Instructions in the Computer
- 5EIB0 Computation II, resit notes: Instructions (resit) - 5EIB0
- 5EIB0 Computation II, resit notes: RISC-V (little endian)
- 5EIB0 Computation II, resit notes: Floating Point (resit) - 5EIB0
- 5EIB0 Computation II, resit notes: Compiler (resit) - 5EIB0
Related topics
Processor Datapath and Pipelining · Caches and Memory Hierarchy