Title :
A superscalar microprocessor
Author :
Intrater, G. ; Talmudi, Ran
Author_Institution :
Nat. Semiconductor Ltd., Hertzelia, Israel
Abstract :
The Swordfish, a new microprocessor in the NS32000/EP family, achieves 100 MIPS peak performance on integer, floating-point, and DSP applications. It utilizes superscalar RISC architecture and incorporates two integer units a single/double precision floating-point unit, instruction and data caches, 64-bit pipelined bus interface unit, two channel direct memory access unit, timer, and a 15-level interrupt control unit
Keywords :
microprocessor chips; reduced instruction set computing; 100 MIPS; Swordfish; caches; direct memory access unit; integer units; interrupt control unit; microprocessor; pipelined bus interface unit; single/double precision floating-point unit; superscalar RISC architecture; timer; CMOS logic circuits; Clocks; Computer architecture; Control systems; Costs; Decoding; Digital signal processing; Microprocessors; Pipelines; Reduced instruction set computing;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, 1991. Proceedings., 17th Convention of
Conference_Location :
Tel Aviv
Print_ISBN :
0-87942-678-0
DOI :
10.1109/EEIS.1991.217646
