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The Architecture of CAST

• The Stacksystem
  • Concept of a Stack.
  • Stack Overflow/Underflow.
  • Implementation of the Stack System.
• Pipeline
• Tagged Data
• Program Counter Unit
• Memory Interface
• Instruction Set
  • Register to Register Instruction.
  • Specification of Operands.
  • Memory Access Instructions.
  • Control Flow Instructions.
  • Other Instructions.
  • Special Register.
  • The Special Field.
• Exception Handling