MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages) developed by MIPS Technologies uses a reduced instruction set computing (RISC) architecture. Multiple revisions of the MIPS instruction set exist.
| The early MIPS architectures were 32-bit, while later versions were 64-bit. The versions include MIPS I, MIPS II, MIPS III, MIPS IV, MIPS V, MIPS32, and MIPS64. The current revisions are MIPS32 (for 32-bit implementations) and MIPS64 (for 64-bit implementations). |
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| MIPS32 and MIPS64 define a control register set as well as the instruction set. The MARS, a MIPS32 simulator, will be used in this course. The figure shows different versions of MIPS32. |
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