Title :
A single cycle VLSI CISC-based workstation: system overview and performance characteristics
Author_Institution :
NexGen Microsyst., San Jose, CA, USA
fDate :
Feb. 27 1989-March 3 1989
Abstract :
The NexGen workstation is based on a VLSI processor chip set that brings advanced mainframe and workstation technologies to the industry standard desktop market. The processor is based on a complex instruction set architecture to support OS/2 applications. The processor achieves single-cycle execution of most instructions. The processor implementation requires 2.0 million transistors, plus an additional 6.5 million transistors in the cache RAMs (random-access memories).<>
Keywords :
VLSI; computer architecture; instruction sets; workstations; NexGen; OS/2; cache RAMs; complex instruction set architecture; performance characteristics; single cycle VLSI CISC-based workstation; system overview; Application software; Computer architecture; Decoding; Microcomputers; Personal communication networks; Pipelines; Read-write memory; Transistors; Very large scale integration; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
COMPCON Spring '89. Thirty-Fourth IEEE Computer Society International Conference: Intellectual Leverage, Digest of Papers.
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-1909-0
DOI :
10.1109/CMPCON.1989.301983
