MIPS R2000 RISC Architecture

By Gerry Kane

Book Overview

A complete reference manual to the MIPS RISC architecture, this book describes the user Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), by the R2000, R3000, R4000, and R6000 (collectively known as the R-Series) processors, together with an extension to this ISA. Focusing on the new R4000 and R6000 chips, this book is organized into two major sections: Chapters 1 through 6 describe the characteristics of the CPU, while Chapter 7 through 9 describe the Floating Point Unit (FPU). This book describes the general characteristics and capabilities of each RISC processor, along with a description of the programming model, memory management unit (MMU), and the registers associated with each processor. Also included is an overview of the underlying concepts that distinguish RISC architecture from Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC) architecture. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0135847494
• ISBN13: 9780135847497
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Age Range: 6 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 1 and higher

Customer Reviews

Good Solid Information

The book has a good amount of solid information. What I mean by solid, is it has the "real" information you need to understand the MIPS architecture. It is well written and very understandable. It is more understandable than many other architecture books I have used before.