The MIPS-X RISC Microprocessor

Chow Paul

ISBN 10: 1441951199 / ISBN 13: 9781441951199

Published by Springer, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The MIPS-X RISC Microprocessor
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441951199
• ISBN 13: 9781441951199
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.