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Register
Named register[s] hold the data of interest.
For an instruction to truely be a register based instruction,
both source and destination specified by registers.
All action occurs within the CPU.
Example
IBM360: L R1,R2
Very fast access to data.
May conceptually overlap with implied on simpler CPUs.
6502: TAY (transfer A to Y) can be also viewed as an implied because
complete instruction is 1 byte opcode.
RISC architectures depend heavily on register, register activity for
most work.
ADD R1,R2,R3 ; Add R1 and R2 and store result in R3