The Gmicro/300 32-Bit Microprocessor

  • Authors:
  • Takeshi Kitahara;Taizo Satoh

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Micro
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

A high-end microprocessor, the Gmicro/300, based on the TRON architecture specification is described. In contrast to other RISC (reduced-instruction-set-computer) or CISC (complex-instruction-set-computer) chips, it executes an instruction with a memory operand and a register operand in one clock cycle. Separate cache memories improve performance more than 13.8%. The Gmicro/300's pipeline structure, its other one-cycle structures, and the effects of using internal caches are discussed.