Processor Structure and Function

Processor Organization

Register Organization

User-Visible Registers

Control and Status Registers

Program Status Word (PSW)

instruction Cycle

Pipelining Strategy

Additional Stages

Pipeline Hazards

Types of Data Hazards

Control Hazard

Control Hazard

Multiple Streams

Loop Buffer

Branch Prediction

Interrupt Processing

The ARM Processor

Processor Modes

Processor Modes