The MIPS-X RISC Microprocessor by Paul Chow

The MIPS-X RISC Microprocessor by Paul Chow

The first Stanford MIPS project started as a special graduate course in 1981. That project produced working silicon in 1983 and a prototype for running small programs in early 1984. After that, we declared it a success and decided to move on to the next project-MIPS-X. This book is the final and complete word on MIPS-X. The initial design of MIPS-X was formulated in 1984 beginning in the Spring. At that time, we were unsure that RISe technology was going to have the industrial impact that we felt it should. We also knew of a number of architectural and implementation flaws in the Stanford MIPS machine. We believed that a new processor could achieve a performance level of over 10 times a VAX 11/780, and that a microprocessor of this performance level would convince academic skeptics of the value of the RISe approach. We were concerned that the flaws in the original RISe design might overshadow the core ideas, or that attempts to industrialize the technology would repeat the mistakes of the first generation designs. MIPS-X was targeted to eliminate the flaws in the first generation de­ signs and to boost the performance level by over a factor of five.

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ISBN 13	9780792390459
ISBN 10	0792390458
Title	The MIPS-X RISC Microprocessor
Author	Paul Chow
Series	The Springer International Series In Engineering And Computer Science
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Year published	1989-10-31
Number of pages	232
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