2 - MIPS ISA 1 Practice Problems

3-Second Blueprint (English)

1. MIPS instructions combine an opcode with register operands or immediate constants to execute arithmetic (add, addi) and control flow.
2. Load and store instructions compute effective byte addresses by adding a signed immediate offset to a base register value in the ALU.
3. Because MIPS requires word-aligned memory accesses, reading an unaligned 4-byte word requires two aligned loads and register bit-merging.