RISC CPU
Our fast RISC CPU microprocessors are based on the MIPS architecture. MIPS Technologies, Inc. designs and licenses the MIPS RISC microprocessor family that is used in computer systems, consumer electronics and embedded control applications. The MIPS processor technology is available on the open market from six semiconductor partners: Integrated Device Technology, Inc., LSI Logic Corporation, NEC Corporation, NKK Corporation, Philips Semiconductors, Quantum Effect Design, Inc., and Toshiba Corporation. These partners participate in the design and development of MIPS processors and software and then produce, market, sell and support the processors. MIPS itself does not fabricate or sell products.
I wonder when we will have the ability to imbed graphics in our posts?
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vMicroprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
<processor> (MIPS) A project at Stanford University intended to simplify processor design by eliminating hardware interlocks between the five pipeline stages. This means that only single execution cycle instructions can access the thirty two 32 bit general registers, so that the compiler can schedule them to avoid conflicts. This also means that LOAD/STORE and branch instructions have a one-cycle delay to account for. However, because of the importance of multiply and divide instructions, a special HI/LO pair of multiply/divide registers exist which do have hardware interlocks, since these take several cycles to execute and complicate instruction scheduling.
The project eventually lead to the commercial MIPS R2000 processor.
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