Prof. John Nestor ECE Department Lafayette College Easton, Pennsylvania ECE 313 – Microprocessor Organization Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS Fall 2004 Reading: Portions of these slides are derived from: Textbook figures © 1998 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers all rights reserved Tod Amon's COD2e Slides © 1998 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers all rights reserved Dave Patterson’s CS 152 Slides - Fall 1997 © UCB Rob Rutenbar’s Slides - Fall 1999 CMU other sources as noted Image Source: MIPS, Inc.
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS2 Some Well-Known Architectures +Application - E=Embedded, D=Desktop, S=Server
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS3 Microprocessor Usage Figure 1.2
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS4 Outline - Instruction Sets Instruction Set Overview MIPS Instruction Set Overview Registers and Memory MIPS Instructions Software Concerns Summary
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS5 MIPS Architecture - Applications Workstations/Servers SGI Workstations SGI Servers Embedded Applications - examples Network Routers Laser Printers Digital Cameras Game Consoles: Sony PS 2 / Nintendo 64 Personal Digital Assistants Sony AIBO & QRIO Robots Image Source:
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS6 MIPS Design Principles 1. Simplicity Favors Regularity 2. Smaller is Faster 3. Good Design Makes Good Compromises 4. Make the Common Case Fast
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS7 Outline - Instruction Sets Instruction Set Overview MIPS Instruction Set Overview Registers and Memory MIPS Instructions Software Concerns Summary
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS8 MIPS Registers and Memory Memory 4GB Max (Typically 64MB-1GB) 0x x x x C 0x x x x C 0xfffffff4 0xfffffffc PC = 0x C Registers 32 General Purpose Registers R0 R1 R2 R30 R31 32 bits
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS9 MIPS Registers Fast access to program data Register R0/$0/$zero : hardwired to constant zero Register names: $0-$31 or R0-R31 Specialized names based on usage convention $zero ($0) - always zero $s0-$s7 ($16-$23) - “saved” registers $t0-$t7 ($8-$15) - “temporary” registers $sp - stack pointer Other special-purpose registers
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS10 MIPS Registers and Usage
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS11 More about MIPS Memory Organization Two views of memory: 2 32 bytes with addresses 0, 1, 2, …, byte words* with addresses 0, 4, 8, …, Both views use byte addresses Word address must be multiple of 4 (aligned) 8 bits 0x x x x x x x x C 32 bits 0123 *Word sizes vary in other architectures Not all architectures require this
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS12 Outline - Instruction Sets Instruction Set Overview MIPS Instruction Set Overview Registers and Memory MIPS Instructions Software Concerns Summary
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS13 MIPS Instructions All instructions exactly 32 bits wide Different formats for different purposes Similarities in formats ease implementation oprsrtoffset 6 bits5 bits 16 bits oprsrtrdfunctshamt 6 bits5 bits 6 bits R-Format I-Format opaddress 6 bits26 bits J-Format
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS14 MIPS Instruction Types Arithmetic & Logical - manipulate data in registers add $s1, $s2, $s3$s1 = $s2 + $s3 or $s3, $s4, $s5$s3 = $s4 OR $s5 Data Transfer - move register data to/from memory lw $s1, 100($s2)$s1 = Memory[$s ] sw $s1, 100($s2)Memory[$s ] = $s1 Branch - alter program flow beq $s1, $s2, 25if ($s1==$s1) PC = PC *25
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS15 MIPS Arithmetic & Logical Instructions Instruction usage (assembly) add dest, src1, src2dest=src1 + src2 sub dest, src1, src2dest=src1 - src2 and dest, src1, src2dest=src1 AND src2 Instruction characteristics Always 3 operands: destination + 2 sources Operand order is fixed Operands are always general purpose registers Design Principles: Design Principle 1: Simplicity favors regularity Design Principle 2: Smaller is faster
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS16 Arithmetic Instruction Examples C simple addition and assignment C code: A = B + C MIPS code:add $s0, $s1, $s2 Complex arithmetic assignment: C code:A = B + C + D; E = F - A; MIPS code:add $t0, $s1, $s2 add $s0, $t0, $s3 sub $s4, $s5, $s0 Compiler keeps track of mapping variables to registers (and, when necessary, memory)
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS17 Arithmetic & Logical Instructions - Binary Representation Used for arithmetic, logical, shift instructions op: Basic operation of the instruction (opcode) rs: first register source operand rt: second register source operand rd: register destination operand shamt: shift amount (more about this later) funct: function - specific type of operation Also called “R-Format” or “R-Type” Instructions oprsrtrdfunctshamt 6 bits5 bits 6 bits
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS18 oprsrtrdfunctshamt 6 bits5 bits 6 bits Decimal Binary Arithmetic & Logical Instructions - Binary Representation Example Machine language for add $8, $17, $18 See reference card for op, funct values
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS19 MIPS Data Transfer Instructions Transfer data between registers and memory Instruction format (assembly) lw $dest, offset($addr)load word sw $src, offset($addr)store word Uses: Accessing a variable in main memory Accessing an array element
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS20 Example - Loading a Simple Variable lw R5,8(R2) Memory 0x00 Variable Z = Variable X Variable Y 0x04 0x08 0x0c 0x10 0x14 0x18 0x1c 8 + Registers R0=0 (constant) R1 R2=0x10 R30 R31 R3 R4 R5 R2=0x10 R5 = Variable Z =
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS21 Data Transfer Example - Array Variable Registers R0=0 (constant) R1 R2=0x08 R30 R31 R3 R4 R5=105 C Program:int a[5]; a[3] = z; Assembly:sw $5,12($2) 12=0xc + Memory 0x00 a[0] a[4] a[2] a[1] a[3] 0x04 0x08 0x0c 0x10 0x14 0x18 0x1c Base Address R5=105 R2=0x08 a[3]=105 scaled offset
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS22 Data Transfer Instructions - Binary Representation Used for load, store instructions op: Basic operation of the instruction (opcode) rs: first register source operand rt: second register source operand offset: 16-bit signed address offset (-32,768 to +32,767) Also called “I-Format” or “I-Type” instructions oprsrtoffset 6 bits5 bits 16 bits Address source for sw destination for lw
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS23 I-Format vs. R-Format Instructions Compare with R-Format offset 6 bits5 bits 16 bits I-Format oprsrtrdfunctshamt 6 bits5 bits 6 bits R-Format oprsrt Note similarity!
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS24 I-Format Example Machine language for lw $9, 1200($8) == lw $t1, $1200($t0) oprsrtoffset 6 bits5 bits 16 bits Binary Decimal
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS25 MIPS Conditional Branch Instructions Conditional branches allow decision making beq R1, R2, LABEL if R1==R2 goto LABEL bne R3, R4, LABEL if R3!=R4 goto LABEL Example C Codeif (i==j) goto L1; f = g + h; L1:f = f - i; Assemblybeq $s3, $s4, L1 add $s0, $s1, $s2 L1:sub $s0, $s0, $s3
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS26 Example: Compiling C if-then-else Example C Codeif (i==j) f = g + h; else f = g - h; Assemblybne $s3, $s4, Else add $s0, $s1, $s2 j Exit; # new: unconditional jump Else:sub $s0, $s0, $s3 Exit: New Instruction: Unconditional jump j LABEL# goto Label
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS27 Binary Representation - Branch Branch instructions use I-Format offset is added to PC when branch is taken beq r0, r1, offset has the effect: if (r0==r1) pc = pc (offset << 2) else pc = pc + 4; Offset is specified in instruction words (why?) What is the range of the branch target addresses? oprsrtoffset 6 bits5 bits 16 bits Conversion to word offset
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS28 Branch Example Machine language for beq $s3, $s4, L1 add $s0, $s1, $s2 L1:sub $s0, $s0, $s3 oprsrtoffset 6 bits5 bits 16 bits Binary Decimal $19 $20 PC PC+4 Target of beq 1-instruction offset
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS29 Comparisons - What about, >=? bne, beq provide equality comparison slt provides magnitude comparison slt $t0,$s3,$s4# if $s3<$s4 $t0=1; # else $t0=0; Combine with bne or beq to branch: slt $t0,$s3,$s4# if (a<b) bne $t0,$zero, Less# goto Less; Why not include a blt instruction in hardware? Supporting in hardware would lower performance Assembler provides this function if desired (by generating the two instructions) condition register
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS30 Binary Representation - Jump Jump Instruction uses J-Format ( op=2 ) What happens during execution? PC = PC[31:28] : (IR[25:0] << 2) opaddress 6 bits26 bits Conversion to word offset Concatenate upper 4 bits of PC to form complete 32-bit address
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS31 Jump Example Machine language for j L5 Assume L5 is at address 0x and PC <= 0x03FFFFFF Binary Decimal/Hex opaddress 6 bits26 bits 20x >>2 lower 28 bits 0x
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS32 Constants / Immediate Instructions Small constants are used quite frequently (50% of operands) e.g., A = A + 5; B = B + 1; C = C - 18; MIPS Immediate Instructions (I-Format): addi $29, $29, 4 slti $8, $18, 10 andi $29, $29, 6 ori $29, $29, 4 Allows up to 16-bit constants How do you load just a constant into a register? ori $5, $zero, 666 Arithmetic instructions sign-extend immed. Logical instructions don’t sign extend immed.
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS33 Why are Immediates only 16 bits? Because 16 bits fits neatly in a 32-bit instruction Because most constants are small (i.e. < 16 bits) Design Principle 4: Make the Common Case Fast
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS34 MIPS Logical Instructions and, andi - bitwise AND or, ori - bitwise OR Example and$s2,$s0,$s1 ori$s3,s2, $s0 $s1 $s $s ( )
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS35 Logical Operations - Applications Masking - clear, set or test Individual bits Groups of bits
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS36 (original contents) $t0 Larger Constants Immediate operations provide for 16-bit constants What about when we need larger constants? Use "load upper immediate - lui” (I-Format) lui $t0, Then use ori to fill in lower 16 bits: ori $t0, $t0, filled with zeros $t
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS37 MIPS Shift Instructions MIPS Logical Shift Instructions Shift left: sll (shift-left logical) instruction Right shift: srl (shift-right logical) instruction sll$s1,$s0,8 srl$s2,$s1, Zeros shift in Zeros shift in $s0 $s1 $s2
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS38 Shift Instruction Encodings Applications Bitfield access (see book) Multiplication / Division by power of 2 Example: array access sll $t0,$t1,2 # $t0=$t1*4 add $t3,$t1,$t2 lw $t3, 0($t3) oprsrtrdfunctshamt 6 bits5 bits 6 bits srl 0rsrtrd0shamt sll 0rsrtrd6shamt unused
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS39 Summary - MIPS Instruction Set Three instruction formats Similarities in formats ease implementation oprsrtoffset 6 bits5 bits 16 bits oprsrtrdfunctshamt 6 bits5 bits 6 bits R-Format I-Format opaddress 6 bits26 bits J-Format
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS40 Instruction Sets - Overview Instruction Set Overview MIPS Instruction Set Overview Registers and Memory Instructions Software Concerns Compiling C Constructs Procedures (Subroutines) and Stacks Example: Internet Worms Compiling, Linking, and Loading Example: String Processing / SPIM Demo
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS41 Procedure Calls in MIPS Register conventions to support procedures: $a0-$a3 - four argument registers ( $4-$7 ) $v0-$v1 - two return value registers ( $2-$3 ) $ra - one return address register ( $31 ) Calling procedures - jump and link (jal) jal ProcedureAddress // J-Format instr. effect: $ra = PC PC = ProcedureAddress Returning from procedure - “jump register (jr) jr $ra effect: PC = $ra
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS42 High Address 0x7fffffff Low Address 0x Using the Stack Stack operations Push - add data to stack Pop - remove data from stack MIPS stack pointer: $sp $sp (stored data) Direction of Growth
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS43 “Push” - Adding Data to the Stack Adjust stack pointer to allocate space subi $sp,$sp,12 Store registers in allocated space sw $t1,8($sp) sw $t0,4($sp) sw $s0,0($sp) $sp (stored data) High Address 0xffffffff Low Address 0x (stored data) Direction of Growth (contents of $t1) (contents of $t0) (contents of $s0)
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS44 Pop - Removing Data from Stack Move data from stack to register if needed lw $s0,0($sp) lw $t0,4($sp) lw $t0,8($sp) Adjust stack pointer to remove space addi $sp,$sp,12 Direction of Shrinkage $sp (stored data) High Address 0xffffffff Low Address 0x (stored data) (contents of $t1) (contents of $t0) (contents of $s0) (contents of $t0) (contents of $t1)
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS45 main(char *argc[], int argv) { DTYPE data; data = read_input(argv[0])); process_data(stuff); write_output(stuff) } DTYPE read_input(char* filename) {... return data; } void process_data(DTYPE pdata) { x = f1(pdata[I]); … f2(pdata[J])... } void write_data(DTYPE wdata) {... } int f1(... ) {... return x; } int f1(... ) {... } Nested Calls in C Functions
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS46 Recursion in C Functions int fact (int n) /* see book p. 136) { if (n < 1) return 1; else return (n * fact(n-1)); } int fact (5) { if (n < 1) return 1; else return (n * fact(n-1)); } int fact (4) { if (n < 1) return 1; else return (n * fact(n-1)); } int fact (3) { if (n < 1) return 1; else return (n * fact(n-1)); } int fact (2) { if (n < 1) return 1; else return (n * fact(n-1)); } int fact (1) { if (n < 1) return 1; else return (n * fact(n-1)); } int fact (0) { if (n < 1) return 1; else return (n * fact(n-1)); }
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS47 Procedures and the Stack Each called procedure maintains a stack frame $fp $sp Before Call $fp $sp Saved argument registers (if any) Saved return addr. Saved “saved” registers e.g. $s0 (if any) Local arrays and structures (if any) After Call $sp $fp After Return frame pointer
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS48 0x xffffffff MIPS Runtime - Memory Map Reserved 0x x7fffffff Reserved (OS) Static data 0x Heap Stack 0x Text $gp $sp Instructions Dynamic Data Static Data Stack Data
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS49 Dynamic Memory Allocation Static Data Dynamic Data Static Data Stack Data Stack Heap C programs Create space using malloc Release space using free (watch for memory leaks!) Java programs Create objects using new Space recovered by garbage collection t1 = malloc(sizeof struct S1); t2 = malloc(sizeof struct S2); t3 = malloc(sizeof struct S1); free(t1); free(t3);
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS50 Strings in Assembly Language Place strings (and other data) in “data segment”.text add $t0,$s1,$s2 # assembly instructions.data astring:.asciiz “This is a string” # data Assembler keeps track of label addresses Memory layout: “Big-endian” vs. “Little-endian” ‘T’‘h’‘i’‘s’ ‘ ‘i’‘s’‘ ‘a’‘ ‘\0’ ‘s’‘t’ ‘r’‘i’‘n’‘g’ Astring: 0x Big-Endian ‘T’‘h’‘i’‘s’ ‘ ‘i’‘s’‘ ‘a’‘ ‘\0’ ‘s’‘t’ ‘r’‘i’‘n’‘g’ Astring: 0x Little-Endian
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS51 Summary: MIPS Architecture Memory (Max. 4GB) 0x x x x C 0x x x x C 0xfffffffc 32 bits 32 General Purpose Registers R0 R1 R2 R30 R31 PC = 0x C 32 bits Registers 32 oprsrtoffset oprsrtrdfunctshamt opaddress Instruction Formats (Fixed Length) R-Format I-Format J-Format
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS52 Summary: MIPS Instructions (From textbook - COPYRIGHT 1998 MORGAN KAUFMANN PUBLISHERS, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)
ECE 313 Fall 2004Lecture 4 - Instruction Sets: MIPS53 Summary: MIPS Addressing Modes Textbook Fig COPYRIGHT 1998 MORGAN KAUFMANN PUBLISHERS, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED) Used for beq, bne Used for j, jal Used for lw, lb, lh