Designing SOCs with Configured Cores

6.10. Miscellaneous Instructions

All Diamond processor cores implement the miscellaneous instructions listed in Table 6.7. These instructions are useful in a wide range of applications.

Table 6.7. Miscellaneous Diamond processor core instructions

Instruction mnemonic	Instruction definition
NSA	Calculates the left-shift amount needed to normalize a 32-bit two’s-complement number.
NSAU	Calculates the left-shift amount needed to normalize a 32-bit, unsigned number.
MIN	Selects the minimum value operand from two input operands stored in two’s-complement format.
MAX	Selects the maximum value operand from two input operands stored in two’s-complement format.
MINU	Selects the minimum value operand from two input operands stored in unsigned format.
MAXU	Selects the ...