Language - Machine

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Machine language is the binary format for instructions that can be stored in memory and decoded by the CPU.

Machine language is a collection of instruction that a device can identify and perform a corresponding action.

Machine language is a language of generation 1.

Same as Instruction - Instruction Set (Device Language).

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The common case

• Fixed-sized (32-bit) instructions
• Only 3 instruction formats
• Limited-sized immediate field

MIPS

• MIPS machine language is designed to be easy to decode.
• Each MIPS instruction is the same length, 32bits
• There are only three different instruction formats, which are very similar to each other.

mips instruction set is:

• used by nec, Nintendo, Silicon Graphics, and Sony
• designed since the early 1980s

Documentation / Reference

• MIPS course
• Machine Language Instructions
• The hierarchy language picture is from Organization of Computer Systems: ISA, Machine Language, and Number Systems - Instructor: M.S. Schmalz