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To: Process Boy who wrote (93791)2/17/2000 2:49:00 AM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574980
 
PB,

There has been no speed path work on the Willy Si that was shown at the demo.

Willy will undoubtably speed up over time. However, in order to build a 20 stage pipeline, a huge amount of speed work must have already been done up front. The number of gates per stage is probably precisely balanced, so logic repartitioning will not be an option.

Speed improvements will come mostly from replacing missized transistors and wires, and from process enhancements.

Scumbria