English Dictionary: instruction set architecture | by the DICT Development Group |
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
instruction set architecture need to be understood in order to write {assembly language}, such as the {machine language} instructions and {registers}. Parts of the architecture that are left to the implementation, such as number of {superscalar} {functional units}, {cache} size and {cycle} speed, are not part of the ISA. The definition of {SPARC}, for example, carefully distinguishes between an implementation and a specification. (1999-01-16) |