or any one of the other really beefy CPU architectures out there. Superscalars are great for general purpose computing, but their performance per watt dollar is abysmal in comparison to a DSP.
Hennessey and D. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach , Morgan Kaufmann, 3rd edition (2002) COURSE GOALS: To learn designing and implementing processor architecture and learn to ...
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[RetroBytes] nicely presents the curious history of the SPARC processor architecture. SPARC, short for Scalable Processor Architecture, defined some of the most commercially successful RISC ...
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