Encoding:

SPECIAL

000000

0

00000

0

00000

0

00000

0

00000

SLL

000000

6

5

5

5

5

6

Format: 

NOP

Assembly Idiom

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 to fill branch and jump delay slots and to pad out alignment sequences.