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Record Nr.

UNISA996466040903316

Autore

Müller Silvia M

Titolo

The Complexity of Simple Computer Architectures [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Silvia M. Müller, Wolfgang J. Paul

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1995

ISBN

3-540-47774-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 1995.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 273 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 995

Disciplina

004.2/2

Soggetti

Microprogramming 

Microprocessors

Computer system failures

Arithmetic and logic units, Computer

Electronics

Microelectronics

Logic design

Control Structures and Microprogramming

Processor Architectures

System Performance and Evaluation

Arithmetic and Logic Structures

Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation

Logic Design

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

The formal architecture model -- Functional modules -- Hardwired control -- Design of a minimal CPU -- Design of the DLX machine -- Trade-off analyses -- Interrupt -- Microprogrammed control -- Further applications of the architecture model.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a formal model for evaluating the cost effectiveness of computer architectures. The model can cope with a wide range of architectures, from CPU design to parallel supercomputers. To illustrate the formal procedure of trade-off analyses, several non-pipelined design alternatives for the well-known RISC architecture called DLX are



analyzed quantitatively. It is formally proved that the interrupt mechanism proposed for the DLX architecture handles nested interrupts correctly. In an appendix all programs to compute the cost and cycle time of the designs described are listed in C code. Running these simple C programs on a PC is sufficient to verify the results presented. The book addresses design professionals and students in computer architecture.