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Books Editorial Reviews The publisher, Prentice-Hall ECS Professional A complete reference manual to the MIPS RISC architecture. Product Description: A complete reference manual to the MIPS RISC architecture, this book desc ribes the user Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), by the R2000, R3000, R4000, and R6000 (collectively known as the R-Series) processors, togeth er with an extension to this ISA. Focusing on the new R4000 and R6000 ch ips, this book is organized into two major sections: Chapters 1 through 6 describe the characteristics of the CPU, while Chapter 7 through 9 des cribe the Floating Point Unit (FPU). This book describes the general cha racteristics and capabilities of each RISC processor, along with a descr iption of the programming model, memory management unit (MMU), and the r egisters associated with each processor. Also included is an overview of the underlying concepts that distinguish RISC architecture from Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC) architecture.
See all my rev iews The first edition of this book (MIPS RISC Architecture, by Gerry Kane, IS BN 0135847494) was an excellent book: it described well and completely t he R2000/R3000 processors, their instructions, and how to program them. This, the second edition, tries to expand on that, but does a stunningly poor job. While is has been expanded slightly to cover some R6000 and R4 000 topics (eg some changes to the CP0 architecture), it fails horribl y at describing at crucial elements of the R4000. Very few of the instructions that first appeared in the R4000 are described, and in particular the 64-bit CPU i nstructions seem to be omitted entirely. The result is that this edition fails to present a clear picture of *either* the R2000/R3000 or later MIPS processors. If you're interested in learning about MIPS architecture, even historical (R2000/R3000) MIPS architecture, I'd suggest looking elsewhere: See MIP S Run is quite good (but not excellent in my opinion) and covers a wide range of topics. The first edition of this book is an excellent referenc e about R2000/R3000, but is limited to them. The MIPS architecture docum entation manuals from MIPS themselves tend to be clear and complete refe rences, but lacking in background information.
Good Solid Information, June 16, 2000 Reviewer: A reader The book has a good amount of solid information. What I mean by solid, is it has the "real" information you need to understand the MIPS architect ure. It is more understandab le than many other architecture books I have used before.
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