HK386: an x86-compatible 32-bit CISC microprocessor

Author

Kyung, C.M. ; Park, I.-C. ; Hong, S.K. ; Seong, K.S. ; Kong, B.S. ; Lee, S.J. ; Choi, H. ; Maeng, S.R. ; Kim, D.T. ; Kim, J.S. ; Park, S.H. ; Kang, Y.J.

Author_Institution

Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

1997

fDate

28-31 Jan 1997

Firstpage

661

Lastpage

662

Abstract

The authors describe the implementation and design methodology of a microprocessor, called HK386. The microprocessor is compatible with Intel 80386 with respect to the behavior of each instruction set. As the extraction of the exact behavior of each instruction set is the single most important step in compatible chip design, they focused their effort on establishing the reliable verification strategy ensuring the complete instruction level compatibility. The HK386 was successfully designed and fabricated using 0.8 μm CMOS technology

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; circuit CAD; instruction sets; integrated circuit design; microprocessor chips; 0.8 mum; 32 bit; CMOS technology; HK386; Intel 80386 compatibility; compatible chip design; exact instruction set behaviour extraction; reliable verification strategy; x86-compatible CISC microprocessor; CMOS technology; Chip scale packaging; Clocks; Computer interfaces; Decoding; Design methodology; Hardware; Microprocessors; Read only memory; Research and development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design Automation Conference, 1997. Proceedings of the ASP-DAC '97 Asia and South Pacific

Conference_Location

Chiba

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3662-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASPDAC.1997.600351

Filename

600351