MIssonPoSsible architecture:
Overview
We are using parts of the MIPS instruction set and architecture to archive a some what conmpatibility.
In sum the processor possesses 25 instructions.
Registers
The architecture uses 32x32 bit registers, of which 29 are general purpose registers status register, zero register and a special register.
(+ 32 bit program counter.)
Status Register Flags
The following table contains all status flags used for arithmetical operations
and branch decisions:
| Abbrev. | Description |
| N | Negative |
| O | Overflow |
| Z | Zero |
| R | Random Flag |
The Overflow bit is set after multiplication operations arithmetic operations (MUL, MULU, ADD, SUB, shift operations) if the results needs more than 32bit. For additions it works as carry bit. The Zero bit is set if the result of the last operation was zero. The Negative flag is set, when the last operation was a signed-numbers operations and the result was negative. The random bit is randomly set after each clock cylce.
Instruction Set
The following are the six formats used for the core instruction set:
| Type | -31- format (bits) -0- |
| Arithmetical | opcode (6) | rs (5) | rt (5) | rd (5) | reserved (11) |
| Load/Store | opcode (6) | rs (5) | rt (5) | reserved (16) |
| Branch | opcode (6) | reserved(10) | immediate (16) |
| Shift | opcode (6) | reserved (5) | rt (5) | rd (5) | immediate (5) | reserved (6) |
| Jump | opcode (6) | rs (5) | reserved (21) |
| NOOP | 111111 | reserved (21) |
Simplified:
| Type | -31- format (bits) -0- |
| R | opcode (6) | rs (5) | rt (5) | rd (5) | immediate (5) | reserved (6) |
| I | opcode (6) | rs (5) | rt (5) | immediate (16) |
Supported operations:
ADD -- Add
| Description: | Adds two registers and stores the result in a register |
| Operation: | $d = $s + $t; advance_pc (4); |
| Syntax: | add $d, $s, $t |
| Encoding: | 1111 00ss ssst tttt dddd dxxx xxxx xxxx |
ADDU -- Add unsigned
| Description: | Adds two registers and stores the result in a register |
| Operation: | $d = $s + $t; advance_pc (4); |
| Syntax: | addu $d, $s, $t |
| Encoding: | 0011 00ss ssst tttt dddd dxxx xxxx xxxx |
AND -- Bitwise and
| Description: | Bitwise ands two registers and stores the result in a register |
| Operation: | $d = $s & $t; advance_pc (4); |
| Syntax: | and $d, $s, $t |
| Encoding: | 1010 00ss ssst tttt dddd dxxx xxxx xxxx |
BR -- Unconditional Branch
| Description: | Jumps to relative address |
| Operation: | advance_pc (offset << 2)); |
| Syntax: | br offset |
| Encoding: | 0100 01xx xxxx xxxx iiii iiii iiii iiii |
BZS -- Branch on zero set
| Description: | Branches if zero flag in status register is set |
| Operation: | if zero == TRUE advance_pc (offset << 2)); else advance_pc (4); |
| Syntax: | bzs offset |
| Encoding: | 1000 10xx xxxx xxxx iiii iiii iiii iiii |
BZC -- Branch on zero clear
| Description: | Branches if zero flag in status register is cleared |
| Operation: | if zero == FALSE advance_pc (offset << 2)); else advance_pc (4); |
| Syntax: | bzc offset |
| Encoding: | 1000 10xx xxxx xxxx iiii iiii iiii iiii |
BOS -- Branch on overflow set
| Description: | Branches if overflow flag in status register is set |
| Operation: | if overflow == TRUE advance_pc (offset << 2)); else advance_pc (4); |
| Syntax: | bos offset |
| Encoding: | 1000 01xx xxxx xxxx iiii iiii iiii iiii |
BNS -- Branch on negative set
| Description: | Branches if negative flag in status register is set |
| Operation: | if negative == TRUE advance_pc (offset << 2)); else advance_pc (4); |
| Syntax: | bns offset |
| Encoding: | 0111 01xx xxxx xxxx iiii iiii iiii iiii |
BNC -- Branch on negative clear
| Description: | Branches if negative flag in status register is cleared |
| Operation: | if negative == FLASE advance_pc (offset << 2)); else advance_pc (4); |
| Syntax: | bnc offset |
| Encoding: | 0111 01xx xxxx xxxx iiii iiii iiii iiii |
BOR -- Branch on random
| Description: | Branches if Random Flag is set |
| Operation: | if lsb(random reg.) == TRUE advance_pc (offset << 2)); else advance_pc (4); |
| Syntax: | bor offset |
| Encoding: | 0110 11xx xxxx xxxx iiii iiii iiii iiii |
JR -- Jump register
| Description: | Jump to the address contained in register $s |
| Operation: | PC = nPC; nPC = $s; |
| Syntax: | jr $s |
| Encoding: | 0110 00ss sssx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx |
| Description: | The 16bit immediate value is stored in the lower word of the destiny register. The higher word is unchanged. |
| Operation: | $t = ($t & 0xFF00)+imm; advance_pc (4); |
| Syntax: | lli $t, imm |
| Encoding: | 0101 00xx xxxt tttt iiii iiii iiii iiii |
LW -- Load word
| Description: | A word is loaded into a register from the specified address. |
| Operation: | $d = MEM[$s]; advance_pc (4); |
| Syntax: | lw $d, $s |
| Encoding: | 0100 10ss sss0 0000 dddd dxxx xxxx xxxx |
NOOP -- no operation
| Description: | Performs no operation. |
| Operation: | advance_pc (4); |
| Syntax: | noop |
| Encoding: | 1111 1100 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 |
OR -- Bitwise or
| Description: | Bitwise logical ors two registers and stores the result in a register |
| Operation: | $d = $s | $t; advance_pc (4); |
| Syntax: | or $d, $s, $t |
| Encoding: | 1001 11ss ssst tttt dddd dxxx xxxx xxxx |
SLL -- Shift left logical
| Description: | Shifts a register value left by the shift amount listed
in the instruction and places the result in a third register. Zeroes are shifted in. |
| Operation: | $d = $t << i; advance_pc (4); |
| Syntax: | sll $d, $t, i |
| Encoding: | 1100 11xx xxxt tttt dddd diii iixx xxxx |
SLLV -- Shift left logical variable
| Description: | Shifts a register value left by the value in a second
register and places the result in a third register. Zeroes are shifted in. |
| Operation: | $d = $t << $s; advance_pc (4); |
| Syntax: | sllv $d, $t, $s |
| Encoding: | 1100 00ss ssst tttt dddd dxxx xxxx xxxx |
SRA -- Shift right arithmetic
| Description: | Shifts a register value right by the shift amount
and places the value in the destination register. The sign bit is shifted in. |
| Operation: | $d = $t >> i; advance_pc (4); |
| Syntax: | sra $d, $t, i |
| Encoding: | 1011 10xx xxxt tttt dddd diii iixx xxxx |
SRL -- Shift right logical
| Description: | Shifts a register value right by the shift amount
and places the value in the destination register. Zeroes are shifted in. |
| Operation: | $d = $t >> i; advance_pc (4); |
| Syntax: | srl $d, $t, i |
| Encoding: | 1011 01xx xxxt tttt dddd diii iixx xxxx |
SRLV -- Shift right logical variable
| Description: | Shifts a register value right by the amount
specified in $s and places the value in the destination register. Zeroes are shifted in. |
| Operation: | $d = $t >> $s; advance_pc (4); |
| Syntax: | srlv $d, $t, $s |
| Encoding: | 1010 11ss ssst tttt dddd dxxx xxxx xxxx |
SUB -- Subtract
| Description: | Subtracts two registers and stores the result in a register |
| Operation: | $d = $s - $t; advance_pc (4); |
| Syntax: | sub $d, $s, $t |
| Encoding: | 1110 10ss ssst tttt dddd dxxx xxxx xxxx |
SUBU -- Subtract unsigned
| Description: | Subtracts two registers and stores the result in a register |
| Operation: | $d = $s - $t; advance_pc (4); |
| Syntax: | subu $d, $s, $t |
| Encoding: | 0010 10ss ssst tttt dddd dxxx xxxx xxxx |
SW -- Store word
| Description: | The contents of $t is stored at the specified address. |
| Operation: | MEM[$s] = $t; advance_pc (4); |
| Syntax: | sw $s, $t |
| Encoding: | 0011 11ss ssst tttt xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx |
XOR -- Bitwise exclusive or
| Description: | Exclusive ors two registers and stores the result in a register |
| Operation: | $d = $s ^ $t; advance_pc (4); |
| Syntax: | xor $d, $s, $t |
| Encoding: | 1001 00ss ssst tttt dddd dxxx xxxx xxxx |
OpCodes
The opcodes have a hamming distance of 2.
| opcode | -31- instruction -0- |
| 111111 | NOOP |
| 111100 | ADD |
| 001100 | ADDU |
| 111010 | SUB |
| 001010 | SUBU |
| 110110 | SRL |
| 110101 | SRLV |
| 110011 | SLL |
| 110000 | SLLV |
| 101110 | SRA |
| 101101 | SRL |
| 101011 | SRLV |
| 101000 | AND |
| 100111 | OR |
| 100100 | XOR |
| 010001 | BR |
| 010111 | BNC |
| 100010 | BZS |
| 100001 | BOS |
| 011101 | BNS |
| 011110 | BZC |
| 011011 | BOR |
| 011000 | JR |
| 010100 | LLI |
| 010010 | LW |
| 001111 | SW |
Address Modes
- register (register-absolute addressing for direct jumps)
- immediate (immediate-relative addressing for branches)