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Computer Internals
Level 3 / 6

Instruction set architecture

The contract between software and silicon: instruction formats, encodings, addressing modes.

01 C8

Chapters

  1. 3.1Instruction formats and encodingPlanned
  2. 3.2Addressing modesPlanned
  3. 3.3x86, ARM and RISC-V side by sidePlanned
  4. 3.4Interrupts and exceptionsPlanned
  5. 3.5Data types the hardware understandsPlanned