See MIPS RunThe versatile offspring of an extended family of multiple chip companies, today's MIPS chips are everywhere. set-top boxes, and high-performance workstations. This book brings together this extraordinary proliferation of form and functionality, offering embedded systems programmers and designers unique, eminently practical insights into MIPS. revolution, the full details of the MIPS instruction set, and how these details together constitute a full operating system ready to be put to work in hundreds of ways. the deepest level, or even if you're just curious, you're sure to find what you need in this book. picture that only a true expert can deliver. |
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64 bits 64-bit CPUs addr address space addu aligned argument assembler assembly language big-endian branch delay slot broffset byte cache line called chip clock cycle compiler convention coprocessor CPU's D-cache debugger define encoding endianness endif entry point exception handler field floating-point FP registers fs fd ft MIPS function function prologue general-purpose registers hardware IEEE implementation instruction set integer interrupt invalidate kernel label little-endian load load/store long long macro MDMX memory mfc0 MIPS architecture MIPS CPUs mode module mtc0 noreorder object code offset operands page table physical address pipeline pointer program address refill reset result return address RISC routine secondary cache Section sequence shft Silicon Graphics stack frame status register subroutine there's tion TLB entry TLB miss translation trap unaligned uncached unsigned variables word zero