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MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by MIPS Computer Systems. Together with the R2000 and R3000 microprocessors, MIPS was introduced in 1985 through their first commercial design, the R2000 microprocessor, and later the R3000. During the 1980s and early 1990s, MIPS was successfully used in many types of computers; for example, Silicon Graphics (SGI) used it for their computers. One of the important functions of SGI at the time was 3D computer graphics, which MIPS supported well due to inherent benefits of the ISA; performance was improved, assembly language programs were made significantly smaller, and other computational tasks were optimized.
MIPS implementations were also used by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in their DECstation workstations. MIPS was so favorably viewed that DEC was willing to pay a royalty for every MIPS-based system it sold. The MIPS architecture had a number of versions — namely, MIPS I, II, III, IV, and V — leading to the release of the first 64-bit MIPS microprocessor, the R4000, in 1991.
A distinguishing feature of MIPS as an ISA is the extensive provision of options within the specification. Instructions in the MIPS instruction set have an optional delay through a pipeline. For particular versions of the architecture, such as MIPS I, II, and III, this is true, but optionality was removed for delay slots in MIPS IV and removed completely for MIPS V.
Being a RISC ISA, MIPS makes the programmer’s job easier in that it includes a smaller number of different instruction formats than some other architectures.
It achieves this without excessively sacrificing computational power because, like other RISC architectures, it uses a large number of general-purpose registers, or GPRs. This makes MIPS architecture fast. Computational tasks can be executed simultaneously in these registers. This optimization is called high-level language friendly because GPRs are not restricted in the type of value they can hold. At the stage when the machine code instructions are translated from the higher-level human-readable programming language code, these registers can be accessed in a flat array of registers. By contrast, other architectures have multiple sets of registers with different sizes and special restrictions on which parts of the code can access them.
Two sets of memory locations, called memory-mapped I/O and coprocessor zero, are used for input and output. Accessibility to the memory is defined within the architecture’s specification, and use of these two locations can be customized through memory mapping.
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MIPS Computer Systems and ISA
Origins and Development of MIPS ISA
MIPS Computer Systems initially introduced a new type of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA), namely MIPS ISA, in 1985 along with their first commercial design, the R2000 microprocessor. This was soon followed by the introduction of the R3000 microprocessor, the subsequent version of this architecture. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, MIPS ISA was widely adopted in various computer systems. For example, Silicon Graphics (SGI) successfully applied MIPS in their workstations, where an important function at that time was 3D computer graphics. MIPS’s powerful computation performance, simpler assembly language, and features optimized for 3D graphics contributed to this application.
Iterative Evolution of MIPS ISA Choices and Features
MIPS ISA provides a great deal of flexibility in architecture design guidelines, including optional delays in instruction execution through the pipeline. In certain versions such as MIPS I, II, and III, this was a unique option, but in MIPS IV, delay slots were removed, and completely absent in MIPS V. This also reflects MIPS’s continuous improvement and evolution philosophy.
However, interest persisted in specific applications and industries, and the MIPS one processor developed a series of continued adoptions after being introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) as an industry benchmark at a specific time, especially in their feasibility studies for digital equipment a few years ago.
Characteristics of the MIPS Instruction Set
As part of the RISC ISA, one of the many design features of MIPS is that it does not have many instruction formats. This means programming is easier. Additionally, the instruction set includes a large array of general-purpose registers (GPRs), allowing its processors to perform exceptionally well, as operations can be executed directly in parallel at these locations. This speed optimization is referred to as being high-level language friendly because there are no value type restrictions on the registers. During the translation of high-level programming language source code into machine code, these registers can be easily accessed in a flat array of registers. In contrast to other architectures, which have multiple sets of registers of different sizes, some with special restrictions, MIPS’s flexibility makes it better suited to complex programming needs.
MIPS resolves input and output through two memory locations, described as memory-mapped I/O and coprocessor zero. The ability to operate memory is written in the initial architecture specifications and can be utilized through custom memory mapping of these two locations.
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