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The ARM Instruction Set - University of Texas at Austin

EE382N-4 embedded Systems ArchitectureThe ARM Instruction Set ArchitectureMark McDermottWith help from our good friends at ARMFall 20088/22/2008EE382N-4 embedded Systems ArchitectureMain features of the ARM Instruction Set All instructions are 32 bits long. Most instructions execute in a single cycle. Most instructions can be conditionally executed. A load/store architecture Data processing instructions act only on registers Three operand format Combined ALU and shifter for high speed bit manipulation Specific memory access instructions with powerful auto indexing addressing modes. 32 bit and 8 bit data types and also 16 bit data types on ARM Architecture v4. Flexible multiple register load and store instructions Instruction set extension via coprocessors Very dense 16 bit compressed Instruction set (Thumb)28/22/2008EE382N-4 embedded Systems ArchitectureCoprocessors3 Up to 16coprocessors can be defined Expands the ARM Instruction set Each coprocessor can have up to 16 private registers of any reasonable size Load store architectureEE382N-4 embedded Systems ArchitectureThumb Thumb is a 16 bit Instruction set Optimized for code density from C code Improved performance form narrow memory Subset of the functionality of the ARM Instruction set Core has two execution states

EE382N-4 Embedded Systems Architecture Thumb Thumb is a 16 ‐ bit instruction set – Optimized for code density from C code – Improved performance form narrow memory – Subset of the functionality of the ARM instruction set Core has two execution states –ARM and Thumb – Switch between them using BX instruction

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