C.1 Introduction C-2 C.2 Addressing Modes and Instruction Formats C-4 C.3 Instructions: The MIPS Core Subset C-5 C.4 Instructions: Multimedia Extensions of the Desktop/Server RISCs C-16 C.5 Instructions: Digital Signal-Processing Extensions of the Embedded RISCs C-18 C.6 Instructions: Common Extensions to MIPS Core C-19 C.7 Instructions Unique to MIPS64 C-24 C.8 Instructions Unique to Alpha C-26 C.9 Instructions Unique to SPARC v.9 C-27 C.10 Instructions Unique to PowerPC C-31 C.11 Instructions Unique to PA-RISC 2.0 C-32 C.12 Instructions Unique to ARM C-35 C.13 Instructions Unique to Thumb C-36 C.14 Instructions Unique to SuperH C-37 C.15 Instructions Unique to M32R C-38 C.16 Instructions Unique to MIPS16 C-38 C.17 Concluding Remarks C-40 C.18 Acknowledgments C-41 References C-41
C A Survey of RISC Architectures for Desktop, Server, and Embedded Computers
RISC: any computer announced after 1985. Steven Przybylski A Designer of the Stanford MIPS
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C-2 Appendix C A Survey of RISC Architectures for Desktop, Server, and Embedded Computers
C.1 Introduction
We cover two groups of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architectures in this appendix. The first group is the desktop and server RISCs: