Encoding:

POOL32A

000000

0

00000

0

00000

0

00000

0

00000

SLL

000000

6

5

5

5

5

6

Format:

NOP 

Assembly Idiom microMIPS

No Operation

Purpose:

No Operation

To perform no operation.

Description:

NOP is the assembly idiom used to denote no operation. The actual instruction is interpreted by the hardware as SLL r0, r0, 0.

Restrictions:

None

Operations:

None

Exceptions:

None

Programming Notes:

The zero instruction word, which represents SLL, r0, r0, 0, is the preferred NOP for software to use and to pad out alignment sequences.