IEEE Spectrum
The IBM RISC System/6000 processor: hardware overview
IBM Journal of Research and Development
i860 microprocessor architecture
i860 microprocessor architecture
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IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
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SAC '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied computing: technological challenges of the 1990's
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ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
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The internal design of the i860 CPU, which exploits pipelining and parallelism more than previous microprocessors, is described. The i860 uses RISC concepts and memory-performance optimizations in several novel ways. Other innovations include simultaneous floating-point operations similar to digital signal processing, a two-instruction-per-clock mode, fast floating-point pipelines graphics instructions, and high-bandwidth registers and caches on-chip. These features make it one of the fastest single-chip processors available.