Load–store architecture
In computer engineering, a load/store architecture is an instruction set architecture that divides instructions into two categories: memory access (load and store between memory and registers), and ALU operations (which only occur between registers).[1]: 9–12
RISC instruction set architectures such as PowerPC, SPARC, RISC-V, ARM, and MIPS are load/store architectures.[1]: 9–12
For instance, in a load/store approach both operands and destination for an ADD operation must be in registers. This differs from a register memory architecture (for example, a CISC instruction set architecture such as x86) in which one of the operands for the ADD operation may be in memory, while the other is in a register.[1]: 9–12
The earliest example of a load/store architecture was the CDC 6600.[1]: 54–56 Almost all vector processors (including many GPUs[2]) use the load/store approach.[3]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Michael J. Flynn (1995). Computer architecture: pipelined and parallel processor design. ISBN 0867202041.
- ^ "AMD GCN reference" (PDF).
- ^ Harvey G. Cragon (1996). Memory systems and pipelined processors. p. 512-513. ISBN 0867204745.
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