Guide to RISC Processors: For Programmers & Engineers

Description

This title details RISC design principles as well as explains the differences between this and other designs. It helps readers acquire hands-on assembly language programming experience.


Contents:

Part I--OVERVIEW: Introduction * Processor design issues * RISC principles

Part II--ARCHITECTURES: MIPS architecture * SPARC architecture * PowerPC architecture * Itanium architecture * ARM architecture

Part III--MIPS ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE: SPIM simulator and debugger * Assembly language overview * Procedures and the stack * Addressing modes * Arithmetic instructions * Conditional execution * Logical and shift operations * Recursion * Floating-point operations

Appendixes: Number Systems * Character Representation * MIPS Instruction Set Summary * Programming Exercises

Bibliography * Index