Question: Consider yourself as a computer architect and you are employed in a vendor company . The company told you that they are going to design
Consider yourself as a computer architect and you are employed in a vendor company
The company told you that they are going to design a new bit RISC type of CPU. As
an ISA designer, your job is to propose a detailed design of the ISA. Few of the issues
probably you would have to address are given below:
How many operands?
Types of operand? Register based?? Memory based? Mixed?
How many operations? Why?
Types of operations? Arithmetic logical branch type?? How many from
each category? Draw a table with a list of instructions, instruction type, their
opcode, functionality if any
How many formats would you choose? Draw the formats along with
field name and number of bits in each field.
List of registers? Draw a register table. with register name and values
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