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Instruction Set

A reduced instruction set contains at least the following instruction groups:

1. computational instructions, which operate on two source registers and store the result in a destination register,
2. conditional control flow instructions, and
3. instructions to access memory (load and store).

• Register to Register Instruction.
• Specification of Operands.
• Memory Access Instructions.
• Control Flow Instructions.
• Other Instructions.
• Special Register.
• The Special Field.