instruction encoding
nounUK /ɪnˈstrʌkʃən ɪnˈkəʊdɪŋ/
US /ɪnˈstrʌkʃən ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/
The way a computer turns a command into a pattern of numbers it can understand.
The chip's instruction encoding decides how each machine command is stored as bits.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. The process of converting assembly instructions into binary machine code.
The assembler handles instruction encoding before the program runs.
3. The fixed layout of fields such as opcode and operands within a machine instruction.
RISC-V uses a simple instruction encoding with a fixed length.
4. A scheme that maps operation names to numeric codes in a processor.
Changing the instruction encoding required updating the compiler.