MIPS Registers
MIPS CPU has
- 32 × 32-bit general purpose registers
- 16 × 64-bit double-precision registers
- PC ... 32-bit register (always aligned on 4-byte boundary)
- HI,LO ... for storing results of multiplication and division
Registers can be referred to as $0..$31 or by symbolic names
Some registers have special uses e.g.
- register
$0 always has value 0, cannot be written
- registers
$1 , $26 , $27 reserved for use by system
More details on following slides ...
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