CH-3 CPU architecture and organization.ppt

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Central Processing Unit
Computer Organization Computer Architectures Lab
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT
• Introduction
• General Register Organization
• Stack Organization
• Instruction Formats
• Addressing Modes
• Data Transfer and Manipulation
• Program Control
• Reduced Instruction Set Computer

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MAJOR COMPONENTS OF CPU
Introduction
• Storage Components
Registers
Flags
• Execution (Processing) Components
Arithmetic Logic Unit(ALU)
Arithmetic calculations, Logical computations, Shifts/Rotates
• Transfer Components
Bus
• Control Components
Control Unit Register
File ALU
Control Unit

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REGISTERS
• In Basic Computer, there is only one general purpose register,
the Accumulator (AC)
• In modern CPUs, there are many general purpose registers
• It is advantageous to have many registers
– Transfer between registers within the processor are relatively fast
– Going “off the processor” to access memory is much slower
• How many registers will be the best ?

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GENERAL REGISTER ORGANIZATION
General Register Organization
MUX
SELA { MUX }SELB
ALU
OPR
R1
R2
R3
R4
R5
R6
R7
Input
3 x 8
decoder
SELD
Load
(7 lines)
Output
A bus B bus
Clock
BUS: A, B
(7 lines)

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OPERATION OF CONTROL UNIT
The control unit
Directs the information flow through ALU by
- Selecting various Components in the system
- Selecting the Function of ALU
Example: R1  R2 + R3
[1] MUX A selector (SELA): BUS A  R2
[2] MUX B selector (SELB): BUS B  R3
[3] ALU operation selector (OPR): ALU to ADD
[4] Decoder destination selector (SELD): R1  Out Bus
Control Word
Encoding of register selection fields
Control
Binary
Code SELA SELB SELD
000 Input Input None
001 R1 R1 R1
010 R2 R2 R2
011 R3 R3 R3
100 R4 R4 R4
101 R5 R5 R5
110 R6 R6 R6
111 R7 R7 R7
SELA SELB SELD OPR
3 3 3 5

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ALU CONTROL
Encoding of ALU operations OPR
Select Operation Symbol
00000 Transfer A TSFA
00001 Increment A INCA
00010 ADD A + B ADD
00101 Subtract A - B SUB
00110 Decrement A DECA
01000 AND A and B AND
01010 OR A and B OR
01100 XOR A and B XOR
01110 Complement A COMA
10000 Shift right A SHRA
11000 Shift left A SHLA
Examples of ALU Microoperations
Symbolic Designation
Microoperation SELA SELB SELD OPR Control Word
Control
R1  R2  R3 R2 R3 R1 SUB 010 011 001 00101
R4  R4  R5 R4 R5 R4 OR 100 101 100 01010
R6  R6 + 1 R6 - R6 INCA 110 000 110 00001
R7  R1 R1 - R7 TSFA 001 000 111 00000
Output  R2 R2 - None TSFA 010 000 000 00000
Output  Input Input - None TSFA 000 000 000 00000
R4  shl R4 R4 - R4 SHLA 100 000 100 11000
R5  0 R5 R5 R5 XOR 101 101 101 01100

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REGISTER STACK ORGANIZATION
Register Stack
Push, Pop operations
/* Initially, SP = 0, EMPTY = 1, FULL = 0 */
PUSH POP
Stack Organization
SP  SP + 1 DR  M[SP]
M[SP]  DR SP  SP  1
If (SP = 0) then (FULL  1) If (SP = 0) then (EMPTY  1)
EMPTY  0 FULL  0
Stack
- Very useful feature for nested subroutines, nested interrupt services
- Also efficient for arithmetic expression evaluation
- Storage which can be accessed in LIFO
- Pointer: SP
- Only PUSH and POP operations are applicable
A
B
C
0
1
2
3
4
63
Address
FULL EMPTY
SP
DR
Flags
Stack pointer
stack
6 bits

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MEMORY STACK ORGANIZATION
Stack Organization
- A portion of memory is used as a stack with a
processor register as a stack pointer
- PUSH: SP  SP - 1
M[SP]  DR
- POP: DR  M[SP]
SP  SP + 1
Memory with Program, Data,
and Stack Segments
4001
4000
3999
3998
3997
3000
Data
(operands)
Program
(instructions)
1000
PC
AR
SP
stack
Stack grows
In this direction
- Most computers do not provide hardware to check stack overflow (full
stack) or underflow (empty stack)  must be done in software

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REVERSE POLISH NOTATION
A + B Infix notation
+ A B Prefix or Polish notation
A B + Postfix or reverse Polish notation
- The reverse Polish notation is very suitable for stack
manipulation
• Evaluation of Arithmetic Expressions
Any arithmetic expression can be expressed in parenthesis-free
Polish notation, including reverse Polish notation
(3 * 4) + (5 * 6)  3 4 * 5 6 * +
Stack Organization
• Arithmetic Expressions: A + B
3 3 12 12 12 12 42
4 5 5
6
30
3 4 * 5 6 * +

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PROCESSOR ORGANIZATION
• In general, most processors are organized in one of 3 ways
– Single register (Accumulator) organization
» Basic Computer is a good example
» Accumulator is the only general purpose register
– General register organization
» Used by most modern computer processors
» Any of the registers can be used as the source or destination for
computer operations
– Stack organization
» All operations are done using the hardware stack
» For example, an OR instruction will pop the two top elements from the
stack, do a logical OR on them, and push the result on the stack

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INSTRUCTION FORMAT
OP-code field - specifies the operation to be performed
Address field - designates memory address(es) or a processor register(s)
Mode field - determines how the address field is to be interpreted (to
get effective address or the operand)
• The number of address fields in the instruction format
depends on the internal organization of CPU
• The three most common CPU organizations:
Instruction Format
Single accumulator organization:
ADD X /* AC  AC + M[X] */
General register organization:
ADD R1, R2, R3 /* R1  R2 + R3 */
ADD R1, R2 /* R1  R1 + R2 */
MOV R1, R2 /* R1  R2 */
ADD R1, X /* R1  R1 + M[X] */
Stack organization:
PUSH X /* TOS  M[X] */
ADD
• Instruction Fields

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• Three-Address Instructions
Program to evaluate X = (A + B) * (C + D) :
ADD R1, A, B /* R1  M[A] + M[B] */
ADD R2, C, D /* R2  M[C] + M[D] */
MUL X, R1, R2 /* M[X]  R1 * R2 */
- Results in short programs (Advantage)
- Instruction becomes long (many bits)
• Two-Address Instructions
Program to evaluate X = (A + B) * (C + D) :
MOV R1, A /* R1  M[A] */
ADD R1, B /* R1  R1 + M[A] */
MOV R2, C /* R2  M[C] */
ADD R2, D /* R2  R2 + M[D] */
MUL R1, R2 /* R1  R1 * R2 */
MOV X, R1 /* M[X]  R1 */
Instruction Format
THREE, AND TWO-ADDRESS INSTRUCTIONS

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ONE, AND ZERO-ADDRESS INSTRUCTIONS
• One-Address Instructions
- Use an implied AC register for all data manipulation
- Program to evaluate X = (A + B) * (C + D) :
Instruction Format
LOAD A /* AC  M[A] */
ADD B /* AC  AC + M[B] */
STORE T /* M[T]  AC */
LOAD C /* AC  M[C] */
ADD D /* AC  AC + M[D] */
MUL T /* AC  AC * M[T] */
STORE X /* M[X]  AC */
• Zero-Address Instructions
- Can be found in a stack-organized computer
- Program to evaluate X = (A + B) * (C + D) :
PUSH A /* TOS  A */
PUSH B /* TOS  B */
ADD /* TOS  (A + B) */
PUSH C /* TOS  C */
PUSH D /* TOS  D */
ADD /* TOS  (C + D) */
MUL /* TOS  (C + D) * (A + B) */
POP X /* M[X]  TOS */

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ADDRESSING MODES
Addressing Modes
• Addressing Modes
* Specifies a rule for interpreting or modifying the
address field of the instruction (before the operand
is actually referenced)
* Variety of addressing modes
- to give programming flexibility to the user
- to use the bits in the address field of the
instruction efficiently

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TYPES OF ADDRESSING MODES
• Implied Mode
Address of the operands are specified implicitly
in the definition of the instruction
- No need to specify address in the instruction
- EA = AC, or EA = Stack[SP]
- Examples from Basic Computer
CLA, CME, INP
• Immediate Mode
Instead of specifying the address of the operand,
operand itself is specified
- No need to specify address in the instruction
- However, operand itself needs to be specified
- Sometimes, require more bits than the address
- Fast to acquire an operand
Addressing Modes

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• Register Mode
Address specified in the instruction is the register address
- Designated operand need to be in a register
- Shorter address than the memory address
- Saving address field in the instruction
- Faster to acquire an operand than the memory addressing
- EA = IR(R) (IR(R): Register field of IR)
• Register Indirect Mode
Instruction specifies a register which contains
the memory address of the operand
- Saving instruction bits since register address
is shorter than the memory address
- Slower to acquire an operand than both the
register addressing or memory addressing
- EA = [IR(R)] ([x]: Content of x)
• Autoincrement or Autodecrement Mode
- When the address in the register is used to access memory, the
value in the register is incremented or decremented by 1
automatically
Addressing Modes

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Addressing Modes
• Direct Address Mode
Instruction specifies the memory address which
can be used directly to access the memory
- Faster than the other memory addressing modes
- Too many bits are needed to specify the address
for a large physical memory space
- EA = IR(addr) (IR(addr): address field of IR)
• Indirect Addressing Mode
The address field of an instruction specifies the address of a memory
location that contains the address of the operand
- When the abbreviated address is used large physical memory can be
addressed with a relatively small number of bits
- Slow to acquire an operand because of an additional memory access
- EA = M[IR(address)]

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Addressing Modes
• Relative Addressing Modes
The Address fields of an instruction specifies the part of the address
(abbreviated address) which can be used along with a designated
register to calculate the address of the operand
- Address field of the instruction is short
- Large physical memory can be accessed with a small number of
address bits
- EA = f(IR(address), R), R is sometimes implied
3 different Relative Addressing Modes depending on R;
* PC Relative Addressing Mode (R = PC)
- EA = PC + IR(address)
* Indexed Addressing Mode (R = IX, where IX: Index Register)
- EA = IX + IR(address)
* Base Register Addressing Mode
(R = BAR, where BAR: Base Address Register)
- EA = BAR + IR(address)

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ADDRESSING MODES - EXAMPLES -
Addressing
Mode
Effective
Address
Content
of AC
Addressing Modes
Direct address 500 /* AC  (500) */ 800
Immediate operand - /* AC  500 */ 500
Indirect address 800 /* AC  ((500)) */ 300
Relative address 702 /* AC  (PC+500) */ 325
Indexed address 600 /* AC  (RX+500) */ 900
Register - /* AC  R1 */ 400
Register indirect 400 /* AC  (R1) */ 700
Autoincrement 400 /* AC  (R1)+ */ 700
Autodecrement 399 /* AC  -(R) */ 450
Load to AC Mode
Address = 500
Next instruction
200
201
202
399
400
450
700
500 800
600 900
702 325
800 300
Memory
Address
PC = 200
R1 = 400
XR = 100
AC

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DATA TRANSFER INSTRUCTIONS
Load LD
Store ST
Move MOV
Exchange XCH
Input IN
Output OUT
Push PUSH
Pop POP
Name Mnemonic
• Typical Data Transfer Instructions
Direct address LD ADR AC M[ADR]
Indirect address LD @ADR AC  M[M[ADR]]
Relative address LD $ADR AC  M[PC + ADR]
Immediate operand LD #NBR AC  NBR
Index addressing LD ADR(X) AC  M[ADR + XR]
Register LD R1 AC  R1
Register indirect LD (R1) AC  M[R1]
Autoincrement LD (R1)+ AC  M[R1], R1  R1 + 1
Autodecrement LD -(R1) R1  R1 - 1, AC  M[R1]
Mode
Assembly
Convention Register Transfer
Data Transfer and Manipulation
• Data Transfer Instructions with Different Addressing Modes

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DATA MANIPULATION INSTRUCTIONS
• Three Basic Types: Arithmetic instructions
Logical and bit manipulation instructions
Shift instructions
• Arithmetic Instructions
Name Mnemonic
Clear CLR
Complement COM
AND AND
OR OR
Exclusive-OR XOR
Clear carry CLRC
Set carry SETC
Complement carry COMC
Enable interrupt EI
Disable interrupt DI
Name Mnemonic
Logical shift right SHR
Logical shift left SHL
Arithmetic shift right SHRA
Arithmetic shift left SHLA
Rotate right ROR
Rotate left ROL
Rotate right thru carry RORC
Rotate left thru carry ROLC
Name Mnemonic
• Logical and Bit Manipulation Instructions • Shift Instructions
Data Transfer and Manipulation
Increment INC
Decrement DEC
Add ADD
Subtract SUB
Multiply MUL
Divide DIV
Add with Carry ADDC
Subtract with Borrow SUBB
Negate(2’s Complement) NEG

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FLAG, PROCESSOR STATUS WORD
• In Basic Computer, the processor had several (status) flags – 1 bit
value that indicated various information about the processor’s
state – E, FGI, FGO, I, IEN, R
• In some processors, flags like these are often combined into a
register – the processor status register (PSR); sometimes called a
processor status word (PSW)
• Common flags in PSW are
– C (Carry): Set to 1 if the carry out of the ALU is 1
– S (Sign): The MSB bit of the ALU’s output
– Z (Zero): Set to 1 if the ALU’s output is all 0’s
– V (Overflow): Set to 1 if there is an overflow
Status Flag Circuit
c7
c8
A B
8 8
8-bit ALU
V Z S C
F7
F7 - F0
8
F
Check for
zero output

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PROGRAM CONTROL INSTRUCTIONS
Program Control
PC
+1
In-Line Sequencing (Next instruction is fetched
from the next adjacent location in the memory)
Address from other source; Current Instruction,
Stack, etc; Branch, Conditional Branch,
Subroutine, etc
• Program Control Instructions
Name Mnemonic
Branch BR
Jump JMP
Skip SKP
Call CALL
Return RTN
Compare(by  ) CMP
Test(by AND) TST
* CMP and TST instructions do not retain their
results of operations (  and AND, respectively).
They only set or clear certain Flags.

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CONDITIONAL BRANCH INSTRUCTIONS
BZ Branch if zero Z = 1
BNZ Branch if not zero Z = 0
BC Branch if carry C = 1
BNC Branch if no carry C = 0
BP Branch if plus S = 0
BM Branch if minus S = 1
BV Branch if overflow V = 1
BNV Branch if no overflow V = 0
BHI Branch if higher A > B
BHE Branch if higher or equal A  B
BLO Branch if lower A < B
BLOE Branch if lower or equal A  B
BE Branch if equal A = B
BNE Branch if not equal A  B
BGT Branch if greater than A > B
BGE Branch if greater or equal A  B
BLT Branch if less than A < B
BLE Branch if less or equal A  B
BE Branch if equal A = B
BNE Branch if not equal A  B
Unsigned compare conditions (A - B)
Signed compare conditions (A - B)
Mnemonic Branch condition Tested condition
Program Control

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SUBROUTINE CALL AND RETURN
Call subroutine
Jump to subroutine
Branch to subroutine
Branch and save return address
• Fixed Location in the subroutine (Memory)
• Fixed Location in memory
• In a processor Register
• In memory stack
- most efficient way
Program Control
• Subroutine Call
• Two Most Important Operations are Implied;
* Branch to the beginning of the Subroutine
- Same as the Branch or Conditional Branch
* Save the Return Address to get the address
of the location in the Calling Program upon
exit from the Subroutine
• Locations for storing Return Address
CALL
SP  SP - 1
M[SP]  PC
PC  EA
RTN
PC  M[SP]
SP  SP + 1

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PROGRAM INTERRUPT
Types of Interrupts
External interrupts
External Interrupts initiated from the outside of CPU and Memory
- I/O Device → Data transfer request or Data transfer complete
- Timing Device → Timeout
- Power Failure
- Operator
Internal interrupts (traps)
Internal Interrupts are caused by the currently running program
- Register, Stack Overflow
- Divide by zero
- OP-code Violation
- Protection Violation
Software Interrupts
Both External and Internal Interrupts are initiated by the computer HW.
Software Interrupts are initiated by the executing an instruction.
- Supervisor Call → Switching from a user mode to the supervisor mode
→ Allows to execute a certain class of operations
which are not allowed in the user mode
Program Control

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INTERRUPT PROCEDURE
- The interrupt is usually initiated by an internal or
an external signal rather than from the execution of
an instruction (except for the software interrupt)
- The address of the interrupt service program is
determined by the hardware rather than from the
address field of an instruction
- An interrupt procedure usually stores all the
information necessary to define the state of CPU
rather than storing only the PC.
The state of the CPU is determined from;
Content of the PC
Content of all processor registers
Content of status bits
Many ways of saving the CPU state
depending on the CPU architectures
Program Control
Interrupt Procedure and Subroutine Call

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COMPLEX INSTRUCTION SET COMPUTER
• Continuing growth in semiconductor memory and
microprogramming
 A much richer and complicated instruction sets
and addressing modes
 Complex Instruction Set Computers (CISC)
• Richer instruction sets would simplify compilers
• Richer instruction sets would move as much functions to the
hardware as possible
• Richer instruction sets would improve architecture quality
• One goal for CISC machines was to have a machine language
instruction to match each high-level language statement type

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VARIABLE LENGTH INSTRUCTIONS
• The large number of instructions means a greater number of bits
to specify them
• The large number of instructions and addressing modes led CISC
machines to have variable length instruction formats
• In order to manage this large number of opcodes efficiently, they
were encoded with different lengths:
– More frequently used instructions were encoded using short opcodes.
– Less frequently used ones were assigned longer opcodes.
• Also, multiple operand instructions could specify different
addressing modes for each operand
– For example,
» Operand 1 could be a directly addressed register,
» Operand 2 could be an indirectly addressed memory location,
» Operand 3 (the destination) could be an indirectly addressed register.
• All of this led to the need to have different length instructions in
different situations, depending on the opcode and operands used

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VARIABLE LENGTH INSTRUCTIONS
• For example, an instruction that only specifies register
operands may only be two bytes in length
– One byte to specify the instruction and addressing mode
– One byte to specify the source and destination registers.
• An instruction that specifies memory addresses for operands
may need five bytes
– One byte to specify the instruction and addressing mode
– Two bytes to specify each memory address
» Maybe more if there’s a large amount of memory.
• Variable length instructions greatly complicate the fetch and
decode problem for a processor
• The circuitry to recognize the various instructions and to
properly fetch the required number of bytes for operands is
very complex

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COMPLEX INSTRUCTION SET COMPUTER
• Another characteristic of CISC computers is that they have
instructions that act directly on memory addresses
– For example,
ADD L1, L2, L3
that takes the contents of M[L1] adds it to the contents of M[L2] and stores the
result in location M[L3]
• An instruction like this takes three memory access cycles to
execute
• The problems with CISC computers are
– The complexity of the design may slow down the processor,
– The complexity of the design may result in costly errors in the processor
design and implementation,
– Many of the instructions and addressing modes are used rarely, if ever

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SUMMARY: CRITICISMS ON CISC
RISC
High Performance General Purpose Instructions
- Complex Instruction
→ Format, Length, Addressing Modes
→ Complicated instruction cycle control due to the complex
decoding HW and decoding process
- Multiple memory cycle instructions
→ Operations on memory data
→ Multiple memory accesses/instruction
- Microprogrammed control is necessity
→ Microprogram control storage takes
substantial portion of CPU chip area
→ Semantic Gap is large between machine
instruction and microinstruction
- General purpose instruction set includes all the features
required by individually different applications
→ When any one application is running, all the features
required by the other applications are extra burden to
the application

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REDUCED INSTRUCTION SET COMPUTERS
• In the late ‘70s and early ‘80s there was a reaction to the
shortcomings of the CISC style of processors
• Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC) were proposed as
an alternative
• The underlying idea behind RISC processors is to simplify the
instruction set and reduce instruction execution time
• RISC processors often feature:
– Few instructions
– Few addressing modes
– Only load and store instructions access memory
– All other operations are done using on-processor registers
– Fixed length instructions
– Single cycle execution of instructions
– The control unit is hardwired, not microprogrammed

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REDUCED INSTRUCTION SET COMPUTERS
• Since all but the load and store instructions use only registers for
operands, only a few addressing modes are needed
• By having all instructions the same length, reading them in is easy
and fast
• The fetch and decode stages are simple, looking much more like
Mano’s Basic Computer than a CISC machine
• The instruction and address formats are designed to be easy to
decode
• Unlike the variable length CISC instructions, the opcode and
register fields of RISC instructions can be decoded
simultaneously
• The control logic of a RISC processor is designed to be simple
and fast
• The control logic is simple because of the small number of
instructions and the simple addressing modes
• The control logic is hardwired, rather than microprogrammed,
because hardwired control is faster

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ARCHITECTURAL METRIC
A  B + C
B  A + C
D  D - B
RISC
• Register-to-register (Reuse of operands)
• Register-to-register (Compiler allocates operands in registers)
• Memory-to-memory
I = 228b
D = 192b
M = 420b
I = 60b
D = 0b
M = 60b
I = 168b
D = 288b
M = 456b
Load rB B
Load rC C
Add rA
Store rA A
rB rC
8 4 16
Add rB rA rC
Store rB B
Load rD D
Sub rD rD rB
Store rD D
Add rA rB rC
Add rB rA rC
Sub rD rD rB
8 4 4 4
Add B C A
8 16 16 16
Add A C B
Sub B D D

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REGISTERS
• By simplifying the instructions and addressing modes, there is
space available on the chip or board of a RISC CPU for more
circuits than with a CISC processor
• This extra capacity is used to
– Pipeline instruction execution to speed up instruction execution
– Add a large number of registers to the CPU

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PIPELINING
• A very important feature of many RISC processors is the ability
to execute an instruction each clock cycle
• This may seem nonsensical, since it takes at least once clock
cycle each to fetch, decode and execute an instruction.
• It is however possible, because of a technique known as
pipelining
– Study later
• Pipelining is the use of the processor to work on different
phases of multiple instructions in parallel

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PIPELINING
• For instance, at one time, a pipelined processor may be
– Executing instruction it
– Decoding instruction it+1
– Fetching instruction it+2 from memory
• So, if we’re running three instructions at once, and it takes an
average instruction three cycles to run, the CPU is executing an
average of an instruction a clock cycle
• As we’ll see when we cover it in depth, there are complications
– For example, what happens to the pipeline when the processor branches
• However, pipelined execution is an integral part of all modern
processors, and plays an important role

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REGISTERS
• By having a large number of general purpose registers, a
processor can minimize the number of times it needs to access
memory to load or store a value
• This results in a significant speed up, since memory accesses
are much slower than register accesses
• Register accesses are fast, since they just use the bus on the
CPU itself, and any transfer can be done in one clock cycle
• To go off-processor to memory requires using the much slower
memory (or system) bus
• It may take many clock cycles to read or write to memory
across the memory bus
– The memory bus hardware is usually slower than the processor
– There may even be competition for access to the memory bus by other
devices in the computer (e.g. disk drives)
• So, for this reason alone, a RISC processor may have an
advantage over a comparable CISC processor, since it only
needs to access memory
– for its instructions, and
– occasionally to load or store a memory value

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• Observations
- Frequency of HLL Operations
 Procedure call/return is the most time consuming operations
- Locality of Procedure Nesting
 The depth of procedure activation fluctuates
within a relatively narrow range
- A typical procedure employs only a few passed
parameters and local variables
• Solution
- Use multiple small sets of registers (windows),
each assigned to a different procedure
- A procedure call automatically switches the CPU to use a different
window of registers, rather than saving registers in memory
- Windows for adjacent procedures are overlapped
to allow parameter passing
RISC
REGISTER WINDOW APPROACH

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CIRCULAR OVERLAPPED REGISTER WINDOWS
RISC

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OVERLAPPED REGISTER WINDOWS
RISC
R15
R10
R15
R10
R25
R16
Common
to D and A
Local to D
Common to C and D
Local to C
Common to B and C
Local to B
Common to A and B
Local to A
Common to A and D
Proc D
Proc C
Proc B
Proc A
R9
R0
Common to all
procedures
Global
registers
R31
R26
R9
R0
R15
R10
R25
R16
R31
R26
R41
R32
R47
R42
R57
R48
R63
R58
R73
R64
R25
R16
R31
R26
R15
R10
R25
R16
R31
R26
R15
R10
R25
R16
R31
R26

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• There are three classes of registers:
– Global Registers
» Available to all functions
– Window local registers
» Variables local to the function
– Window shared registers
» Permit data to be shared without actually needing to copy it
• Only one register window is active at a time
– The active register window is indicated by a pointer
• When a function is called, a new register window is activated
– This is done by incrementing the pointer
• When a function calls a new function, the high numbered
registers of the calling function window are shared with the
called function as the low numbered registers in its register
window
• This way the caller’s high and the called function’s low registers
overlap and can be used to pass parameters and results

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• In addition to the overlapped register windows, the processor
has some number of registers, G, that are global registers
– This is, all functions can access the global registers.
• The advantage of overlapped register windows is that the
processor does not have to push registers on a stack to save
values and to pass parameters when there is a function call
– Conversely, pop the stack on a function return
• This saves
– Accesses to memory to access the stack.
– The cost of copying the register contents at all
• And, since function calls and returns are so common, this
results in a significant savings relative to a stack-based
approach

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CHARACTERISTICS OF RISC
• RISC Characteristics
• Advantages of RISC
- VLSI Realization
- Computing Speed
- Design Costs and Reliability
- High Level Language Support
RISC
- Relatively few instructions
- Relatively few addressing modes
- Memory access limited to load and store instructions
- All operations done within the registers of the CPU
- Fixed-length, easily decoded instruction format
- Single-cycle instruction format
- Hardwired rather than microprogrammed control

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ADVANTAGES OF RISC
• Computing Speed
- Simpler, smaller control unit  faster
- Simpler instruction set; addressing modes; instruction format
 faster decoding
- Register operation  faster than memory operation
- Register window  enhances the overall speed of execution
- Identical instruction length, One cycle instruction execution
 suitable for pipelining  faster
RISC
• VLSI Realization
Control area is considerably reduced
Example:
RISC I: 6%
RISC II: 10%
MC68020: 68%
general CISCs: ~50%
 RISC chips allow a large number of registers on the chip
- Enhancement of performance and HLL support
- Higher regularization factor and lower VLSI design cost
The GaAs VLSI chip realization is possible

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ADVANTAGES OF RISC
• Design Costs and Reliability
- Shorter time to design
 reduction in the overall design cost and
reduces the problem that the end product will
be obsolete by the time the design is completed
- Simpler, smaller control unit
 higher reliability
- Simple instruction format (of fixed length)
 ease of virtual memory management
• High Level Language Support
- A single choice of instruction
 shorter, simpler compiler
- A large number of CPU registers
 more efficient code
- Register window
 Direct support of HLL
- Reduced burden on compiler writer
RISC

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