Three generations of Alpha microprocessors have been designed using a proven custom design methodology. The performance of these microprocessors was optimized by focusing on high-frequency design. The Alpha instruction set architecture facilitates high clock speed, and the chip organization for each generation was carefully chosen to meet critical paths. Digital has developed six generations of...

Three generations of Alpha microprocessors have been designed using a proven custom design methodology. The performance of these microprocessors was optimized by focusing on high-frequency design. The Alpha instruction set architecture facilitates high clock speed, and the chip organization for each generation was carefully chosen to meet critical paths. Digital has developed six generations of...

Recent years have seen the introduction of a series of ever faster, ever more complex microprocessors. These advanced microprocessors have found widespread application in machines that range from personal computers to engineering workstations to massively parallel multicomputers. Unfortunately, many of the features used to endow these processors with high peak performance numbers are diicult fo...

1 The most sophisticated members of the integrated circuit family are microprocessors that serve as the central processing units of modern calculators and computers. Microprocessors have found their way into a myriad of everyday appliances such as radio, television, refrigerators, stoves, microwaves ovens, automobiles, motorcycles, electronic watches, cameras, bicycle, odometers, and home secur...

This paper presents the development of instruction analysis/scheduling CAD techniques to measure the distribution of functional unit usage and the micro operation level parallelism (MLP), which together determine the proper functional unit allocation for superscalar microprocessors, such as the x86 microprocessors. The proposed techniques fit in the early design exploration phase in which the t...

years ahead to 2006. Tn my role as head of Intel’s micro1 pro&or products, I am often asked to paint a picture of the microprocessor of the future. Even if our newest processor has just hit the streets and has not even come close to full use, people naturally crave information about where they’re going rather than where they’ve been. My colleagues and I have been trying for about 10 years now t...

Functional safety is a key requirement in several application domains which microprocessors are an essential part. A number of redundancy techniques have been developed with the common purpose protecting circuits against single event upset (SEU) faults. In microprocessors, functional may be achieved through multi-core or simultaneous-multi-threading architectures, that broadly classifiable as D...

Articles on the use of computer systems, both mainframe and minicomputer, in pathology laboratories have been prolific over the last few years. It might therefore be assumed that a discussion on the role ofthe microprocessor is essentially similar but on a smaller and humbler scale. I hope to show, however, that the microprocessor has a very distinct and significant role in the pathology depart...