Register Name Usage
R0 Program Counter (PC) Holds address of next instruction
R1 Accumulator (AC) Main working register
R2 Stack pointer (SP) Points to top of stack
R3 Instruction Register (IR) Holds currect instruction
R4 Temp Instruction Register (TIR) Use to decode instruction
R5 0 (ZERO) Hardwired Constant (like g0 in SPARC)
R6 +1 (ONE) Hardwired Constant (like g0 in SPARC)
R7 -1 (MINUS ONE) Hardwired Constant (like g0 in SPARC)
R8 0000111111111111 (AMASK) Used to extract 12 bit address from instruction
R9 0000000011111111 (SMASK) Used to extract 8 bit constant from instruction
R10 A register Scratch register
R11 B register Scratch register
R12 C register Scratch register
R13 D register Scratch register
R14 E register Scratch register
R15 F register Scratch register