• In mathematics, an operand is the object of a mathematical operation, i.e., it is the object or quantity that is operated on. The following arithmetic...
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  • (TTA), only operand(s). Most stack machines have "0-operand" instruction sets in which arithmetic and logical operations lack any operand specifier fields;...
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  • Operand forwarding (or data forwarding) is an optimization in pipelined CPUs to limit performance deficits which occur due to pipeline stalls. A data...
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    units (GPUs). The inputs to an ALU are the data to be operated on, called operands, and a code indicating the operation to be performed; the ALU's output...
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  • two-operand form a ← a + b can now use a non-destructive three-operand form c ← a + b, preserving both source operands. Originally, AVX's three-operand format...
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  • In electronic low power digital synchronous circuit design, operand isolation is a technique for minimizing the energy overhead associated with redundant...
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  • bitwise operations are presented as two-operand instructions where the result replaces one of the input operands. On simple low-cost processors, typically...
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  • written ?:, is a binary operator that returns the evaluated first operand if that operand evaluates to a value likened to logically true (according to a...
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    one offending instruction. More formally, the bug is called the invalid operand with locked CMPXCHG8B instruction bug. In the x86 architecture, the byte...
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  • index is scaled by the operand length. Indirect The instruction specifies the location of a pointer word that describes the operand, possibly involving multiple...
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  • representation of AND which does its work on the bits of the operands rather than the truth value of the operands. Bitwise binary AND performs logical conjunction...
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  • frame for a method call has an "operand stack" and an array of "local variables".: 2.6  The operand stack is used for operands to computations and for receiving...
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  • a 16-bit operand size, the address is ANDed with 00FFFFFFh. On Intel (but not AMD) CPUs, the SGDT and SIDT instructions with a 16-bit operand size is –...
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  • decrement operators are unary operators that increase or decrease their operand by one. They are commonly found in imperative programming languages. C-like...
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  • the destination. The four-operand form (FMA4) allows a, b, c and d to be four different registers, while the three-operand form (FMA3) requires that d...
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  • also specify the data (known as operands) the operation will act upon, although some instructions may have implicit operands or none at all. Some instruction...
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  • Option–operand separation is a principle of imperative computer programming. It was devised by Bertrand Meyer as part of his pioneering work on the Eiffel...
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    sometimes termed a signed shift (though it is not restricted to signed operands). The two basic types are the arithmetic left shift and the arithmetic...
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  • up to 4 operands. Like the VEX coding scheme, the EVEX prefix unifies existing opcode prefixes and escape codes, memory addressing and operand length modifiers...
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  • specify an operand. Three bits select one of eight addressing modes, and three bits select a general register. The encoding of the six bit operand addressing...
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  • with a complementing subtractor. The first operand is passed to the subtract unmodified, the second operand is complemented, and the subtraction generates...
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    exits. Each frame provides an "operand stack" and an array of "local variables". The operand stack is used for operands to run computations and for receiving...
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  • constant field and a set of instructions that take XMM0 as an implicit third operand. Several of these instructions are enabled by the single-cycle shuffle...
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    section to the front. The input section has 8 dials with knobs to set the operand number, a telephone-like dial to the right to set the multiplier digit...
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  • instruction codes to have up to four operands (plus immediate), where the original scheme allows only two operands (plus immediate). It allows the size...
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  • defines a set of 4-operand fused-multiply-add instructions that take four input operands – a destination operand and three source operands. FMA3 is supported...
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  • machine model. Stack machine (0-operand machine) Accumulator machine (1-operand machine) Register machine (2,3,... operand machine) Random-access machine...
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    processor register (or an assigned memory location) used for pointing to operand addresses during the run of a program. It is useful for stepping through...
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  • can additionally specify that the rows are the first operand and the columns are the second operand. This condensed notation is particularly useful in discussing...
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    When the operand is a destination (INC operand, DEC operand) or the operation already includes an immediate source (MOV operand,#data, CJNE operand,#data...
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