• Extensive instruction
set
that
includes:
• Byte, halfword, word,
and
doubleword operations.
•
Use
of
all
memory-referencing instructions for
register-to-register
operations,
with
or
without
indirect
addressing
and
postindexing,
and
within
normal instruction format.
•
Multiple
register operations.
•
Fixed-point
integer
arithmetic
operations
in
half-
word, word,
and
doubleword modes.
• Immediate operand instructions.
•
Floating-point
hardware
operations
in short
and
long formats with
significance,
zero,
and
normal-
ization
control
and
checking,
all
under full
pro-
gram
control.
• Full complement of logical
operations
(AND, OR,
exclusive
OR).
•
Comparison
operations,
including compare
between
limits (with I imits in memory or in registers).
•
Call
instructions
that
permit up to 64
dynamically
variable,
user-defined
instructions,
and
allow
a
program
access
to
operating
system functions
with-
out
operating
system
intervention.
• Decimal hardware
operations,
including
arith-
metic,
edit,
and
pack/unpack.
• Byte-string instructions.
• Push-down
stack
operations
(hardware
imple-
mented)
of
single
or
multiple
words, with
auto-
matic
I imit
checking,
for dynamic
space
alloca-
tion,
subroutine
communication,
and
recursive
routine
capabi
lity.
• Automatic conversion
operations,
including
binary/
BCD
and any
other
weighted-number
systems.
•
Analyze
instruction
that
facilitates
effective
address
computation.
•
Interpret
instruction
that
increases
speed of
inter-
pretive
programs.
• Shift operations (left
and
right) of word or
double-
word, including
logical,
circular,
arithmetic,
searching
shift,
and
floating-point
modes.
•
Built-in
reliability
and
maintainability
features
that
include:
• Extensive error logging. When a
fault
is
detected,
system status
and
fault information
are
available
for program
retrieval
and logging for subsequent
analysis.
2
General
Characteristics
• Full
parity
checking
on
all
data
and
addresses
communicated in
either
direction
on buses
between
memory units
and
processors, providing
fault
de-
tection
and
location
capability
to
permit
the
operating
system or
diagnostic
program to
quickly
determine
a faulty unit.
• Address stop
feature
that
permits operator or
main-
tenance
personnel to:
Stop on
any
instruction address.
Stop on
any
memory
reference
address.
Stop when
any
word in a
selected
page
of
memory is
referenced.
• Traps
that
provide for
detection
of a
variety
of
fault
conditions,
designed
to
enable
a high
degree
of system
recoverab
iii ty .
• Partitioning features
that
enable
system
reconfig-
uration
via
a
centralized
Configuration Control
Panel. Units may be
partitioned
from
the
system
by
selectively
disabling them from buses (assuming
other
system
facilities
can
handle
the
additional
load). Thus, faulty units, processors,
devices,
or
an
alternate
system
can
be
isolated
from the
oper-
ational
system to
enable
diagnosis or
repair
whi Ie
the
primary system
continues
operation.
•
Independently
operating
I/O
system with
the
following
features:
•
Direct
input/output
(READ
DIRECT,
WRITE
DIRECT
instructions) for transfer of
32-bit
words
between
the
specified
general register
and
an
external
de-
vice;
a
16-bit
address is transferred for
selection
and
control purposes;
and
each
transfer is under
direct
program
control.
•
Up
to
five
independent
I/O
processor clusters
(re-
stricted
only by
the
maximum number of 6 ports).
• Multiplexor
I/O
processors (MIOPs) (up to 3
per
I/O
cluster),
each
providing for simultaneous
op-
eration
of up to
16
devices
per processor.
•
Data
chaining
for
gather-read
and
scatter-write
operati
ons.
• Command
chaining
for
multiple
record operations.
•
Write
lock
protect
feature
within memory unit
for positive
protection
from
all
processors storing
into
memory.
• Comprehensive modular software
that
is program
com-
patible
with Sigma
5-9
computers:
•
Expands in
capabi
I i ty
and
speed as system grows.
•
Operating
system: Control Program-Five (CP-V).
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