Microarchitecture Info

Past Presentations

• The Intel Pentium Pro. Dave Wang, November 18, 1997.

• The IA-64 Architecture. Bruce Jacob, November 11, 1997.

Handouts, Papers, Additional Information, Etc.

• A really informative paper by Robert Yung, the designer of the UltraSPARC: Design decisions influencing the UltraSPARC's instruction fetch architecture, In Proc. 29th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-29), December 1996.

• Microprocessor Report articles and More Microprocessor Report articles. A few on-line copies of Microprocessor Report articles on different IA-32 compatible processors.

• Product briefs for the Alpha 21064, Alpha 21164, and Alpha 21264. From Digital's on-line technical documentation library.

• First Merced Patent Surfaces. From Microprocessor Report; describes a few implementation details of the IA-64 architecture.

• Merced/IA-64 articles from MicroDesign Resources. Includes the article listed above, as well as the full patent.

• Motivation and Design Approach for the IA-64 64-Bit Instruction Set Architecture. Text of speeches from John Crawford (Intel) and Jerry Huck (Hewlett-Packard) at Microprocessor Forum, October 14, 1997.

  If that link fails, I have the text locally: Motivation and Design Approach for the IA-64.

• Tech Report on the SimpleScalar tool set. The SimpleScalar tool set was developed by Todd Austin at the University of Wisconsin to do his PhD research. They have since refined and extended it and made it publicly available.