ENGLISH

The Complexity of Simple Computer Architectures

By Silvia M. Müller , Wolfgang J. Paul (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1995
ISBN
3540605800, 9783540605805
DOI
10.1007/3-540-60580-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11115862 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 995
Edition
1
Pages
273\278
Library
usenet tech
Time added
2013-03-30 20:00:00
Control Structures and Microprogramming; ProcessorInstrumentation; Logic Design

Description

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.

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