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Chapter 2 Programmer’s Model
This chapter describes the processor registers and provides an overview for programming the
microprocessor. It contains the following sections:
About the programmer’s model on page2-2
Instruction set states on page 2-3
Operating modes on page 2-4
Data types on page 2-5
Memory formats on page 2-6
Registers on page 2-7
Program status registers on page2-10
Exceptions on page 2-16
Acceleration of execution environments on page2-27
Unaligned and mixed-endian data access support on page2-28
Big-endian instruction support on page 2-29.