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Standard AQA Assembly Language Instruction Set

The document describes the standard instruction set for the AQA assembly language. It includes instructions to load and store values from registers and memory, arithmetic instructions to add, subtract, and compare values, logical instructions to AND, OR, XOR values, and instructions to branch conditionally or unconditionally and halt program execution. Operands can be immediate values or values from registers. Labels are used with branch instructions, and comments help explain operand interpretation and available registers.

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Standard AQA Assembly Language Instruction Set

The document describes the standard instruction set for the AQA assembly language. It includes instructions to load and store values from registers and memory, arithmetic instructions to add, subtract, and compare values, logical instructions to AND, OR, XOR values, and instructions to branch conditionally or unconditionally and halt program execution. Operands can be immediate values or values from registers. Labels are used with branch instructions, and comments help explain operand interpretation and available registers.

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Standard AQA assembly language instruction set

LDR Rd, <memory Load the value stored in the memory location specified by <memory
ref> ref> into register d.
STR Rd, <memory Store the value that is in register d into the memory location
ref> specified by <memory ref>.
ADD Rd, Rn, Add the value specified in <operand2> to the value in register n and
<operand2> store the result in register d.
SUB Rd, Rn, Subtract the value specified by <operand2> from the value in
<operand2> register n and store the result in register d.
MOV Rd,
<operand2> Copy the value specified by <operand2> into register d.
CMP Rn, Compare the value stored in register n with the value specified by
<operand2> <operand2>.
B <label> Always branch to the instruction at position <label> in the program.
Branch to the instruction at position <label> if the last comparison
met the criterion specified by <condition>. Possible values for
B <condition>
<label> <condition> and their meanings are:
EQ: equal to NE: not equal to
GT: greater than LT: less than
Perform a bitwise logical AND operation between the value in
AND Rd, Rn,
<operand2> register n and the value specified by <operand2> and store the
result in register d.
Perform a bitwise logical OR operation between the value in register
ORR Rd, Rn,
n and the value specified by <operand2> and store the result in
<operand2>
register d.
Perform a bitwise logical XOR (exclusive or) operation between the
EOR Rd, Rn,
<operand2> value in register n and the value specified by <operand2> and store
the result in register d.
MVN Rd, Perform a bitwise logical NOT operation on the value specified by
<operand2> <operand2> and store the result in register d.
LSL Rd, Rn, Logically shift left the value stored in register n by the number of bits
<operand2> specified by <operand2> and store the result in register d.
LSR Rd, Rn, Logically shift right the value stored in register n by the number of
<operand2> bits specified by <operand2> and store the result in register d.
HALT Stops the execution of the program.

Labels: A label is placed in the code by writing an identifier followed by a colon (:). To refer to a label
the identifier of the label is placed after the branch instruction.

Interpretation of <operand2>

<operand2> can be interpreted in two different ways, depending on whether the first character is a
# or an R:

• # – use the decimal value specified after the #, eg #25 means use the decimal value 25
• Rm – use the value stored in register m, eg R6 means use the value stored in register 6

The available general-purpose registers that the programmer can use are numbered 0–12

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