Instruction Types and Flow of Control
Instruction Types
Input/Output
Programmed I/O
Direct Memory Access
Example instructions
Equivalent instructions
Flow of control
Enough towers already
Are these practical?
Note the differences
Interrupt priorities
Predication
Predication - 1
Predication - 2
IA - 64 -- all instructions predicated
A word about compilers
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