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Digital System Design II 数字系统设计II  Peng Liu (刘鹏) Dept. of Info. Sci. Elec. Engg. Zhejiang University liupeng@ Lecture 2 MIPS Instruction Set Architecture MIPS ISA Textbook reading 2.1-2.4 Look at how instructions are defined and represented What is an instruction set architecture (ISA)? Interplay of C and MIPS ISA Components of MIPS ISA Register operands Memory operands Arithmetic operations Control flow operations 5 components of any Computer Computer (All Digital Systems)Are At Their Core Pretty Simple Computers only work with binary signals Signal on a wire is either 0, or 1 Usually called a “bit” More complex stuff (numbers, characters, strings, pictures) Must be built from multiple bits Built out of simple logic gates that perform boolean logic AND, OR, NOT, … And memory cells that preserve bits over time Flip-flops, registers, SRAM cells, DRAM cells, … To get hardware to do anything, need to break it down to bits Stings of bits that tell hardware what to do are called instructions A sequence of instructions called machine language program (machine code) Hardware/Software Interface The Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) defines what instructions do MIPS, Intel IA32 (x86), Sun SPARC, PowerPC, IBM 390, Intel IA64 These are all ISAs Many different implementations can implement same ISA (family) 8086,386, 486, Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium 4 implement IA32 Of course they continue to extend it, while maintaining binary compatibility ISA last a long time X86 has been in use since the 70s IBM 390 started as IBM 360 in 60s Running An Application MIPS ISA MIPS – semiconductor company that built one of the first commercial RISC architectures Founded by J.Hennessy We will study the MIPS architecture in some detail in this class Why MIPS instead of Intel 80x86? MIPS is simple, elegant and easy to understand X86 is ugly and complicated to explain X86 is dominant on desktop MIPS is prevalent in embedded applications as processor core of system on chip