44 Hardware Reference Manual
Intel® IXP2800 Network Processor
Technical Description
Example 10 shows a big-endian align sequence of instructions and the value of the various
operands. Table 7 shows the data in the registers for this example. The value in
BYTE_INDEX[1:0] CSR (which controls the shift amount) for this example is 2.
Figure 6. Byte-Align Block Diagram
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Prev_A
Byte_Index
Result
B_OperandA_Operand
Prev_B
. . .
. . .
Shift
Table 7. Register Contents for Example 10
Register Byte 3
[31:24]
Byte 2
[23:16]
Byte 1
[15:8]
Byte 0
[7:0]
00123
14567
289AB
3CDEF
Example 10. Big-Endian Align
Instruction Prev B A Operand B Operand Result
Byte_align_be[--, r0] -- -- 0123 --
Byte_align_be[dest1, r1] 0123 0123 4567 2345
Byte_align_be[dest2, r2] 4567 4567 89AB 6789
Byte_align_be[dest3, r3] 89AB 89AB CDEF ABCD
NOTE: A Operand comes from Prev_B register during byte_align_be instructions.