The Definitive Guide to the ARM Cortex-M3

CHAPTER 4 Instruction Sets

In This Chapter:

• Assembly Basics

• Instruction List

• Instruction Descriptions

• Several Useful Instructions in the Cortex-M3

This chapter provides some insight into the instruction set in the Cortex-M3 and examples for a number of instructions. You’ll also find a quick reference of the support instructions in Appendix A of this book. For complete details of each instruction, refer to the ARM v7-M Architecture Application Level Reference Manual (Ref 2).

Assembly Basics

Here we introduce some basic syntax of ARM assembly to make it easier to understand the rest of the code examples in this book. Most of the assembly code examples in this book are based on the ARM assembler tools, with the exception of those in ...