NAR 2

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NAR 2 (Serbian Nastavni Računar 2, en. Educational Computer 2) was a theoretical model of a 32-bit word computer created by Faculty of Mathematics of University of Belgrade professor Nedeljko Parezanović as an enhacement to its predecessor, NAR 1. It was used for Assembly language and Computer architecture courses.

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[edit] Instruction structure

NAR 2 processor Machine instructions was made of a single 32-bit machine word and contained:

  • opcode in 8 most significant bits (bits 24 to 31)
  • 4 bits (20 to 23) specifying the Index register to use with indexed addressing modes
  • 4 bits (16 to 19) containing address mode flags:
    • bit 19: P (sr. Posredno, en. mediated) - indexed
    • bit 18: R (sr. Relativno) - relative to program counter
    • bit 17: I (sr. Indirektno) - multi-level memory indirect (note: the address is loaded from specified location and, should it also specify "I" flag the indirect address calculation continues)
    • bit 16: N (sr. Neposredno) - immediate
  • 16 bit signed parameter value

[edit] Registers

NAR 2 has following registers:

  • a Program counter called BN (sr. Brojač Naredbi, en. Counter of Instructions)
  • Single 32-bit accumulator that can be treated either as integer (fixed point) or real (floating point) number
  • Up to 16 Index registers are specifiable, X0 to X15. However, X0 was never used, possibly because it was reserved as program counter (BN)
  • There were no flags or flag registers

[edit] Opcodes

Following opcodes were available (actual codes were not specified, only mnemonics):

[edit] Memory/register access

  • MUA (sr. Memorija U Akumulator, en. Memory Into Accumulator) loads the value into accumulator
  • AUM (sr. Akumulator U Memoriju, en. Accumulator Into Memory) stores the content of the accumulator
  • PIR (sr. Punjenje Indeksnog Registra, en. Load Index Register) Loads the value into the index register

[edit] Integer arithmetic

Note: all mnemonincs in this group end with letter "F" indicating "Fiksni zarez" (en. Fixed point) arithmetic. However, this is only true for addition, subtraction and negation (sign change). Multiplication and division assume that the "point" is fixed to the right of least significant bit - that is that the numbers are integer.

  • SABF (sr. Saberi u Fiksnom zarezu, en. Add, Fixed Point) - adds parameter to the accumulator
  • ODUF (sr. Oduzmi u Fiksnom zarezu, en. Subtract, Fixed Point) - subtracts the parameter from the accumulator
  • MNOF (sr. Množi u Fiksnom zarezu, en. Multiply, Fixed Point) - Multiples the accumulator with the parameter
  • DELF (sr. Deli u Fiksnom zarezu, en. Divide, Fixed Point) - Divides the accumulator by the parameter
  • PZAF (sr. Promeni Znak Akumulatora u Fiksnom zarezu, en. Change the Sign of Accumuator, Fixed Point) - Changes (flips) the sign of the accumulator

[edit] Floating point arithmetic

  • SAB (sr. Saberi, en. Add) - adds parameter to the accumulator
  • ODU (sr. Oduzmi, en. Subtract) - subtracts the parameter from the accumulator
  • MNO (sr. Množi, en. Multiply) - Multiples the accumulator with the parameter
  • DEL (sr. Deli, en. Divide) - Divides the accumulator by the parameter
  • PZA (sr. Promeni Znak Akumulatora, en. Change the Sign of Accumuator) - Changes (flips) the sign of the accumulator

[edit] Bitwise/logical

[edit] Logical shifts

  • POL (sr. Pomeri Levo, en. Shift Left) - shifts the bits of the accumulator to the left
  • POD (sr. Pomeri Desno, en. Shift Right) - shifts the bits of the accumulator to the right

[edit] Flow control

  • NES (sr. Negativni Skok, en. Negative Jump) performs a conditional jump to the address specified by the parameter if the current value of the accumulator is negative
  • BES (sr. Bezuslovni Skok, en. Unconditional Jump) performs an unconditional jump to the address specified by the parameter
  • NUS (sr. Nula-Skok, en. Zero Jump) performs a conditional jump to the address specified by the parameter if the current value of the accumulator is zero
  • ZAR (sr. Zaustavi Računar, en. Stop the Computer) stops any further processing; this is the only instruction that ignores the parameter.

[edit] Standard assembly language syntax

NAR 2 assembly language syntax was straightforward and easy to parse. Each program line could contain up to one instruction specified as follows:

  1. Instruction mnemonic
  2. Whitespace, if instruction specifies any index registers, addressing mode or a parameter and then comma-separated:
    1. Name of index register, if used
    2. Names of addressing mode flags (also comma separated)
    3. Parameter value

Sample code:

  aum   X1, p, 0
  mua   n, 1
  aum   15
  pir   X1, p, n, 1
  mua   X1, p, n, 0
  oduf  n, 1
  oduf  X2, p, n, 0

[edit] Addressing modes

With four address mode selection bits (P, R, I and N - indexed, relative, indirect and immediate), NAR 2 instructions can specify 16 different addressing modes but not all make sense in all instructions. In the following table:

  • M[x] specifies the 32-bit value (content) of memory location x
  • BN specifies the program counter
  • p specifies the 16-bit signed parameter at location
  • Xi specifies the index register selected by data at location
  • f() is the "effective value" function used for indirect addressing (see details below):


Addr. flags Instruction type
P R I N Data Jump
- - - - M[p] p
- - - N p p
- - I - M[f(M[p])] f(M[p])
- - I N f(M[p]) f(M[p])
- R - - M[BN+p] BN+p
- R - N BN+p BN+p
- R I - M[f(M[BN+p])] f(M[BN+p])
- R I N f(M[BN+p]) f(M[BN+p])
P - - - M[Xi+p] Xi+p
P - - N Xi+p Xi+p
P - I - M[f(M[Xi+p])] f(M[Xi+p])
P - I N f(M[Xi+p]) f(M[Xi+p])
P R - - M[BN+Xi+p] BN+Xi+p
P R - N BN+Xi+p BN+Xi+p
P R I - M[f(M[BN+Xi+p])] f(M[BN+Xi+p])
P R I N f(M[BN+Xi+p]) f(M[BN+Xi+p])

Note 1: "N" (immediate) flag has no effect on jump (flow control) instructions, as the processor can not jump into a specified value, but only to a memory address.

[edit] Multi-level memory indirect

NAR 2 supports multi-level memory indirect addressing mode. The location is first chosen by "looking" at P (indexed) and R (relative to program counter) flags. Then, if I (indirect) flag is detected, a 32-bit word is loaded from the memory location calculated so far and the calculation is restarted (including all addressing mode flags, index register selection and parameter value - only the "opcode" is omitted). Thus, the following program, if loaded at memory location 0 and executed:

mua I, 0 ; Memory-Into-Accumulator, Indirect, from location 0

... would freeze NAR 2 in an infinite address calculation loop:

  1. "I, 0" specifies that the actual address is to be loaded from memory location 0
  2. Memory location 0 is loaded. It reads "I, 0" again
  3. "I, 0" specifies that the actual address is to be loaded from memory location 0
  4. Memory location 0 is loaded. It reads "I, 0" again
  5. "I, 0" specifies that the actual address is to be loaded from memory location 0
  6. Memory location 0 is loaded. It reads "I, 0" again
  7. ...

Note that:

mua R, I, 0 ; Memory-Into-Accumulator, Relative, Indirect, from location BN+0

seems more generic (could freeze NAR 2 from any location), but this depends on when BN register value is incremented/changed.

The question of treatment of "N" (immediate) flag in presence of I (indirect) flag is open as the situation is somewhat ambiguous - whether or not to honour the flag value specified in the original instruction or the one in the indirectly specified (looked up) address? The table above presents the first case to show different addressing modes achievable this way.

[edit] Reading values from Index Registers

NAR 2 has an opcode to initialize the value of particular index register ("PIR" mnemonic). However, it does not have any special opcode to read values index registers. This is achieved by using indexed & immediate (P, N) addressing mode flags, such as:

mua Xi, P, N, n ; Memory-Into-Accumulator, Indexed, Immediate, 0

... which essentially puts Xi+n into accumulator. For n=0, this turns into a "load index register value into accumulator" instruction.

[edit] Trivia

[edit] See also


Computer systems from Serbia
1980‑2000:

TIM-100 | TIM-001 | TIM-600 | TIM-011 | TIM-40M | ATLAS-TIM AT 32 | Galaksija | Galaksija Plus | Pecom 32 | Pecom 64 | Lira XT | Lola 8 | PA512 | LPA512
1960‑1979:

CER Computers (CER-10, CER-2, CER-20, CER-200, CER-202, CER-22, CER-12, CER-203) | HRS-100
Theoretical:

NAR 1 | NAR 2
See also:

Full lists from Serbia | former Yugoslavia | World and history of computing in: Serbia | former Yugoslavia | (former) communist countries | World
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