Scaled - form of indexing. Effective address is found by adding the contents of a specified index register multiplied by a constant to a specified direct or indirect address. Supposed there is an array of 4 byte values. With standard indexing, index must be adjusted by 4 bytes each time. With scaling, index incremented by 1 but EA = Start @ + (index * 4). ARM : LDR R0, [R1, R2, LSL #2] R0 - destination, R1 - base(indirect) register, R2 - index, LSL #2 (x4) Auto-adjust - rather than using an index, uses just a base register and updates base by scalar each time executed. May support increment or decrement. LDR R0, [R1], #4 R0 - destination, R1 - base register, #4 - amount to increment R1 by. * SIMD instructions (vector processor). Single Instruction Multiple Data. SIMD is a form of parallel processing where a single instruction is applied to multiple work units of data. Commonly the instruction will list a single address as a target but the CPU will actually apply the instruction across multiple words of data in parallel. Intel MMU support - 4 words of data. On various super-computers, you may be allowed to indicate the number of work units by an additional operand. Check out : https://arstechnica.com/features/2000/03/simd/