Guide to RISC Processors: for Programmers and Engineers

by Sivarama P. Dandamudi

Overview

Details RISC design principles as well as explains the differences between this and other designs.

Helps readers acquire hands-on assembly language programming experience

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441919359
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	09/30/2010
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
Pages:	388
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of 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