MMIXware: A RISC Computer for the Third Millennium

✍ Scribed by Donald E. Knuth (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 556
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1750
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

MMIX is a RISC computer designed by Don Knuth to illustrate machine-level aspects of programming. In the author's book series "The Art of Computer Programming", MMIX replaces the 1960s-style machine MIX. A particular goal in the design of MMIX was to keep its machine language simple, elegant, and easy to learn. At the same time, all of the complexities needed to achieve high performance in practice are taken into account.
This book constitutes a collection of programs written in CWEB that make MMIX a virtual reality. Among other utilities, an assembler converting MMIX symbolic files to MMIX objects and two simulators executing the programs in given object files are provided. The latest version of all programs can be downloaded from MMIX's home page. The book provides a complete documentation of the MMIX computer and its assembly language. It also presents mini-indexes, which make the programs much easier to understand.

A corrected reprint of the book has been published in August 2014, replacing the version of 1999.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
WELCOME....Pages 1-1
MMIX....Pages 2-61
MMIX-ARITH....Pages 62-109
MMIX-CONFIG....Pages 110-137
MMIX-IO....Pages 138-147
MMIX-MEM....Pages 148-149
MMIX-PIPE....Pages 150-331
MMIX-SIM....Pages 332-421
MMIXAL....Pages 422-493
MMMIX....Pages 494-509
MMOTYPE....Pages 510-523
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Computer Applications; Computer Hardware; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks; Computation by Abstract Devices; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity