Further reading
Books by Jaggar [Jag95], Furber [Fur96], and Sloss et al. [Slo04] describe the ARM architecture. The ARM Web site, http://www.arm.com, contains a large number of documents describing various versions of ARM. Information on the PIC16F can be found at www.microchip.com. Information on the C55x and C64x can be found at http://www.ti.com.
Questions
Q2-1 What is the difference between a big-endian and little-endian data representation?
Q2-2 What is the difference between the Harvard and von Neumann architectures?
Q2-3 Answer the following questions about the ARM programming model:
a. How many general-purpose registers are there?
b. What is the purpose of the CPSR?
c. What is the purpose of the Z bit?
d. Where is the program counter ...
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