GaAs Microprocessors and Digital Systems: An Overview of R&D Efforts

  • Authors:
  • Harry Vlahos;Veljko Milutinovic

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Micro
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

An overview is provided of existing gallium arsenide microprocessors and related digital designs. The architectures described cover a wide range of applications and were chosen on the basis of their unique design and technology characteristics. The issues considered relate to the processor-design level with some register-transfer-level components covered for the sake of completeness. The discussion covers general-application microprocessors including: RCA 8-bit microprocessor; CDC 32-bit microprocessor; McDonnell Douglas 32-bit microprocessor; and RCA 32-bit microprocessor microprocessors of symbolic applications including: Carnegie Mellon's RISCF; and GAELIC from Magnavox, systolic array processors, and alternative approaches to processor design.