Today, most microprocessor and microcontroller designs are based on a reducedinstructionset Computer core with several operations performed by a digital signal processor system. Here, the design of a RISC and DSP sy...
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Today, most microprocessor and microcontroller designs are based on a reducedinstructionset Computer core with several operations performed by a digital signal processor system. Here, the design of a RISC and DSP system is presented that uses very high-density logic (VHDL) and a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). This RISC is a 20-bit processor.
The articles in this special section focus on the history and future technological development of microprocessors. Microprocessors have become more pervasive than any other landmark invention of the entire human civil...
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The articles in this special section focus on the history and future technological development of microprocessors. Microprocessors have become more pervasive than any other landmark invention of the entire human civilization including the wheel, in spite of arriving a few millennia later. Many pioneers who have helped shape this amazing journey of microprocessors from its birth in 1971 to its omnipresence today share their perspectives in this special issue. Industry leaders in commemorating the special anniversary are keen to continue these innovations to an even greater extent and broader societal impact. It has been a remarkable journey from a few hundred transistors to new machine learning engines that occupy an entire wafer with more than a trillion transistors. The journey has had its share of drama and intense competition, both technical and legal. However, in this issue, the entire industry has come together to celebrate this landmark event for microprocessors.
GaAs now allows up to 30K transistors per chip. With such a limitation, can you build a 32-bit CISC on a single GaAs chip? Yes, if you build a reducedinstructionset computer and emulate the 32-bit CISC on it.
GaAs now allows up to 30K transistors per chip. With such a limitation, can you build a 32-bit CISC on a single GaAs chip? Yes, if you build a reducedinstructionset computer and emulate the 32-bit CISC on it.
Looks at the materials and thermal alternatives for scaled, next-century VLSI/ULSI interconnects. It is shown that ad hoc executions of programs to calculate interconnect parameters for VLSI/ULSI design and analysis a...
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Looks at the materials and thermal alternatives for scaled, next-century VLSI/ULSI interconnects. It is shown that ad hoc executions of programs to calculate interconnect parameters for VLSI/ULSI design and analysis are too time-consuming to be practical. The tool used in this study to model a hypothetical interconnect system was Hewlett Packard's HTVE (HP Interconnect Value Extractor).< >
This paper presents various thermal management options available for controlled collapse chip connection (C4) die attached to a ceramic surface mount array (SMA) substrate, as they apply to low end/midrange computer p...
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This paper presents various thermal management options available for controlled collapse chip connection (C4) die attached to a ceramic surface mount array (SMA) substrate, as they apply to low end/midrange computer products, The Motorola 88110 RISC microprocessor was used as a thermal test vehicle to verify theoretical models, for a limited set of boundary conditions, A thermal test board was designed to accommodate the 25 mm substrate and its use will be discussed, The focus is the internal package resistance and the effects of parameters such as: the C4 bumps, the thermal paste, and the thermal paste thickness, However, the die junction-to-ambient resistance is presented for attached commercially-available heat sinks convectively cooled (to 4 m/s) for typical workstation computer-systems operational constraints.
A superscalar RISC processor contains 2.8 million transistors in a die size of 16.2 mm x 16.5 mm, and utilizes 3.3 V/0.5 pm BiCMOS technology. In order to take advantage of superscalar performance without incurring pe...
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A superscalar RISC processor contains 2.8 million transistors in a die size of 16.2 mm x 16.5 mm, and utilizes 3.3 V/0.5 pm BiCMOS technology. In order to take advantage of superscalar performance without incurring penalties from a slower clock or a longer pipeline, a tag bit is implemented in the instruction cache to indicate dependency between two instructions. A performance gain of up to 37% is obtained with only a 3.5% area overhead from our superscalar design.
In embedded computing, cost, power, and performance constraints call for the design of specialized processors, rather than for the use of the existing off-the-shelf solutions. While the design of these application-spe...
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In embedded computing, cost, power, and performance constraints call for the design of specialized processors, rather than for the use of the existing off-the-shelf solutions. While the design of these application-specific CPUs could be tackled from scratch, a cheaper and more effective option is that of extending the existing processors and toolchains. Extensibility is indeed a feature now offered in real designs, e.g., by processors such as Tensilica Xtensa [T. R. Halfhill, Microprocess Rep., 20031, ARC ARCtangent [T. R. Halfhill, Microprocess Rep., 20001, STMicroelectronics ST200 [P. Faraboschi, G. Brown, J. A. Fisher, G. Desoli, and F. Homewood, Proc. 27th Annu. Int. Symp. Computer Architecture, 2000, p. 203], and MIPS CorExtend [T. R. Halfhill, Microprocess Rep., 2003]. While all these processors provide development environments with simulation capabilities for evaluating efficiently hand-crafted solutions, the tools to identify automatically the best processor configuration for a given application are less common. In particular, solutions to choose specialized instruction-set extensions (ISEs) have been investigated in the past years but are still seldom part of commercial toolchains. This paper provides a formal methodology and a set of algorithms that help address the problem. It proposes exact algorithms to derive optimal ISEs;exact identification of a single ISE is applicable to basic blocks of up to 1500 assembler-like instructions. This paper also introduces approximate methods that can process basic blocks of larger size. Results show that the described algorithms find solutions close to those that a designer would obtain by a detailed study of the application code. Both heuristic and exact algorithms find ISEs able to speed up unextended processors up to 5.0x. State-of-the-art comparisons show that the presented algorithms outperform existing ones by up to 2.6x.
A high-speed, high-density, wafer-scale packaging technology for the implementation of GaAs systems is described. The particular requirements of wafer-scale integrated (WSI) packaging and the difficulties involved are...
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A high-speed, high-density, wafer-scale packaging technology for the implementation of GaAs systems is described. The particular requirements of wafer-scale integrated (WSI) packaging and the difficulties involved are examined. The Tektronix-Triquint E/D foundry for producing 1. 0- mu m enhancement/depletion (E/D) MESFETs, is examined. The propagation delay and bandwidth of WSI interconnections are discussed, and fabrication and yield issues are considered.
Spacecraft processors must operate with minimal degradation of performance in the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) radiation environment, which includes the effects of total accumulated ionizing dose and Single Event Phenomena (...
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Spacecraft processors must operate with minimal degradation of performance in the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) radiation environment, which includes the effects of total accumulated ionizing dose and Single Event Phenomena (SEP) caused by protons and cosmic rays. Commercially available microprocessors can offer a number of advantages relative to radiation-hardened devices, including lower cost, reduced development and procurement time, extensive software support, higher density and performance. However, commercially available systems are not normally designed to tolerate effects induced by the LEO environment. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and others have extensively tested the MIPS R3000 reducedinstructionset Computer (RISC) microprocessor family for operation in LEO environments. We have characterized total dose and SEP effects for altitudes and inclinations of interest to systems operating in LEO, and we postulate techniques for detection and alleviation of SEP effects based on experimental results.
Network processor systems on chips meet the speed and flexibility requirements of next-generation Internet routers. the octagon on-chip communication architecture, with its cost, performance, and scalability advantage...
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Network processor systems on chips meet the speed and flexibility requirements of next-generation Internet routers. the octagon on-chip communication architecture, with its cost, performance, and scalability advantages, supports these network processor SOCs.
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