Concepts Introduced in Chapter 3
  • basic instruction set design principles
  • subset of the MIPS assembly language
  • correspondence between high-level language constructs and MIPS assembly code
  • how MIPS assembly instructions are represented in machine language
  • stored-program concept
  • process of transforming a high-level language program into a program that can execute on a computer
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