Lecture 2 MIPS Architecture
Lecture 2 MIPS Architecture
● Consists of 5 parts
– Memory
– Processing Unit
– Input
– Output
– Control Unit
● Examples: LC-3, MIPS
– Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline stages Burks AW, Goldstine HH, Von Neumann J. Preliminary discussion of the
logical design of an electronic computing instrument.
● It keeps track of the instructions being executed with an Instruction register (IR),
which contains the instructions.
● Another register contains the address of the next instruction to execute. It is called
the program counter (PC) or Instruction pointer (IP)
rt - t2
rs - s3
dropping the high-order 4 bits of the address and the low-order 2 bits
For loop: