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Assembly Disc2
Eng Alaa.I.Haniya
Basic Microcomputer Design
• clock synchronizes CPU operations
• control unit (CU) coordinates sequence of execution steps
• ALU performs arithmetic and bitwise processing
Central Processor Unit
(CPU)
Memory Storage
Unit
registers
ALU clock
I/O
Device
#1
I/O
Device
#2
data bus
control bus
address bus
CU
Clock
synchronizes all CPU and BUS operations
machine (clock) cycle measures time of a single operation
clock is used to trigger events
one cycle
1
0
Instruction Execution Cycle
• Fetch
• Decode
• Fetch operands
• Execute
• Store output
I-1 I-2 I-3 I-4
PC program
I-1instruction
register
op1op2
memory fetch
ALU
registers
write
decode
execute
read
write
(output)
registers
flags
I-1 I-2 I-3 I-4
PC program
I-1instruction
register
op1op2
memory fetch
ALU
registers
write
deco
de
execute
readw
rite
(output)
registers
flags
Multi-Stage Non-Pipeline
Instruction execution divided into discrete stages
S1 S2 S3 S4 S5
1
Cycle
s
Stages
S6
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
I-1
I-2
I-1
I-2
I-1
I-2
I-1
I-2
I-1
I-2
I-1
I-2
Example of a non-pipelined processor.
1.Many wasted cycles.
2.For k state and n instruction , the number of required cycles is n*k.
Pipelined Execution
More efficient use of cycles, greater throughput of instructions:
S1 S2 S3 S4 S5
1
Cycle
s
Stages
S6
2
3
4
5
6
7
I-1
I-2 I-1
I-2 I-1
I-2 I-1
I-2 I-1
I-2 I-1
I-2
For k states and n instructions, the number of required cycles is:
k + (n – 1)
When one of the stages requires two or more clock cycles to complete, clock cycles are again wasted
Wasted Cycles (pipelined)
• Assume that stage S4 is the execute stage that requires 2 clock cycles to complete .
• As more instructions enter the pipeline, wasted cycles occur .
• For k stages, where one stage requires 2 cycles, n instructions require k + 2n – 1 cycles .
• A superscalar processor has multiple execution pipelines .
• The Pentium processor has two execution pipelines
Called U and V pipes .
Superscalar Architecture
• In the following, stage S4 has 2 pipelines
• Each pipeline still requires 2 cycles
• eliminates wasted cycles
• For k stages and n instructions, number of cycles = k + n
Accessing Parts of Registers
• Use 8-bit name, 16-bit name, or 32-bit name
• Applies to EAX, EBX, ECX, and EDX
AH AL
16 bits
8
AX
EAX
8
32 bits
8 bits + 8 bits
Some Specialized Register Uses
General-Purpose • EAX – accumulator
• ECX – loop counter
• ESP – stack pointer
• ESI, EDI – index registers
• EBP – extended frame pointer
Segment • CS – code segment
• DS – data segment
• SS – stack segment
• ES, FS, GS - additional segments
EIP – instruction pointer
EFLAGS
• status and control flags
• each flag is a single binary bit
Some Specialized Register Uses
Status Flags
Carry • unsigned arithmetic out of range
Overflow • signed arithmetic out of range
Sign • result is negative
Zero • result is zero
Auxiliary Carry • carry from bit 3 to bit 4
Parity • sum of 1 bits is an even number
Addressable Memory
Protected mode
• 4 GB
• 32-bit address
Real-address and Virtual-8086 modes
• 1 MB space
• 20-bit address
Real-Address mode
• 1 MB RAM maximum addressable
• Application programs can access any area of memory
• Single tasking
• Supported by MS-DOS operating system
Segmented Memory
Segmented memory addressing: absolute (linear) address is a combination of a 16-bit segment value added to a 16-bit offset
00000
10000
20000
30000
40000
50000
60000
70000
80000
90000
A0000
B0000
C0000
D0000
E0000
F0000
8000:0000
8000:FFFF
seg ofs
8000:0250
0250
one segment
Calculating Linear Addresses
Given a segment address, multiply it by 16 (add a hexadecimal zero), and add it to the offset
Example: convert 08F1:0100 to a linear address
Adjusted Segment value: 0 8 F 1 0
Add the offset: 0 1 0 0
Linear address: 0 9 0 1 0