Digital Signal Processing Reference
In-Depth Information
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HAPTER
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A RISC Design:
Synthesis of the MIPS
Processor Core
A full die photograph of the MIPS R2000 RISC Microprocessor is shown above
.
The
1986 MIPS R2000 with five pipeline stages and 450,000 transistors was the world's first
commercial RISC microprocessor. Photograph ©1995-2004 courtesy of Michael
Davidson, Florida State University, http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/chipshots.
