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ISA Design Principles and Encoding
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Fixed vs. variable length, orthogonality, addressing modes, RISC principles (regularity, load/store), and how encoding affects decode complexity and code density.
Goal
Design a minimal instruction encoding for a small ISA; justify tradeoffs among code size, decode speed, and compiler friendliness; map C constructs to efficient instruction sequences.
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