mathematics, an operand is the object of a mathematical operation, i.e., it is the object or quantity that is operated on. Unknown operands in equalities...

(TTA), only operand(s). Most stack machines have "0-operand" instruction sets in which arithmetic and logical operations lack any operand specifier fields;...

units (GPUs). The inputs to an ALU are the data to be operated on, called operands, and a code indicating the operation to be performed (opcode); the ALU's...

In electronic low power digital synchronous circuit design, operand isolation is a technique for minimizing the energy overhead associated with redundant...

bitwise operations are presented as two-operand instructions where the result replaces one of the input operands. On simple low-cost processors, typically...

Operand forwarding (or data forwarding) is an optimization in pipelined CPUs to limit performance deficits which occur due to pipeline stalls. A data...

two-operand form a ← a + b can now use a non-destructive three-operand form c ← a + b, preserving both source operands. Originally, AVX's three-operand format...

decrement operators are unary operators that increase or decrease their operand by one. They are commonly found in imperative programming languages. C-like...

operator, often written ?:, is a binary operator that evaluates its first operand and returns it if its value is logically true (according to a language-dependent...

one offending instruction. More formally, the bug is called the invalid operand with locked CMPXCHG8B instruction bug. In the x86 architecture, the byte...

When the operand is a destination (INC operand, DEC operand) or the operation already includes an immediate source (MOV operand,#data, CJNE operand,#data...

operator), there is a sequence point after the evaluation of the first operand. Most of the operators available in C and C++ are also available in other...

most modern and widely used. The and of a set of operands is true if and only if all of its operands are true, i.e., A ∧ B {\displaystyle A\land B} is...

processor register (or an assigned memory location) used for pointing to operand addresses during the run of a program. It is useful for stepping through...

for a method call has an "operand stack" and an array of "local variables".: 2.6  The operand stack is used for passing operands to computations and for...

machine model. Stack machine (0-operand machine) Accumulator machine (1-operand machine) Register machine (2,3,... operand machine) Random-access machine...

of two operands that are expected to be numbers) that favor numbers — if just one of the operands is a NaN then the value of the other operand is returned...

can additionally specify that the rows are the first operand and the columns are the second operand. This condensed notation is particularly useful in discussing...

representation of AND which does its work on the bits of the operands rather than the truth value of the operands. Bitwise binary AND performs logical conjunction...

a 16-bit operand size, the address is ANDed with 00FFFFFFh. On Intel (but not AMD) CPUs, the SGDT and SIDT instructions with a 16-bit operand size is –...

architecture identify the operand(s) of each instruction. An addressing mode specifies how to calculate the effective memory address of an operand by using information...

constant field and a set of instructions that take XMM0 as an implicit third operand. Several of these instructions are enabled by the single-cycle shuffle...

instructions have a three-operand format, in that they have two operands representing values for the address and one operand for the register to read or...

parentheses. If an operand is both preceded and followed by operators (for example, ^ 3 ^), and those operators have equal precedence, then the operand may be used...

up to 4 operands. Like the VEX coding scheme, the EVEX prefix unifies existing opcode prefixes and escape codes, memory addressing and operand length modifiers...

first operand is both the first source operand and the destination operand. fsubr and fdivr should be singled out as first swapping the source operands before...

with a complementing subtractor. The first operand is passed to the subtract unmodified, the second operand is complemented, and the subtraction generates...

sometimes termed a signed shift (though it is not restricted to signed operands). The two basic types are the arithmetic left shift and the arithmetic...

integer formats. In 64-bit mode, instructions are modified to support 64-bit operands and 64-bit addressing mode. The x86-64 architecture defines a compatibility...

the destination. The four-operand form (FMA4) allows a, b, c and d to be four different registers, while the three-operand form (FMA3) requires that d...