MIPS Assembly/MIPS Processors

This page is going to talk about some of the specific MIPS implementations, and MIPS relatives.

Most MIPS implementations use the classic 5 stage pipeline: instruction fetch, instruction decode/register fetch, execute, memory access, and register write back.

Further reading

• The Microchip PIC32 microcontrollers are based on a MIPS32 M4K Core.
• The MIPS architecture is one of several popular architectures in embedded systems.
• The PlayStation uses a MIPS processor. Several Wikibooks discuss programming the PlayStation: Emulation/PlayStation 1, Linux Guide/PlayStation 3, PSP Programming, Map This!.