Carlo H. Séquin and David A. Patterson

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-82-106

1982

The Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) is an architecture particularly well suited for implementation as a single-chip VLSI computer. It demonstrates that by a judicious choice of a small set of instructions and the design of a corresponding micro-architecture, one can obtain a machine with high throughput. The limited number of instructions and addressing modes leads to a small control section and to a short machine cycle time. Such a machine also requires a much smaller layout effort and thus leads to a shorter design cycle.

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p> Such a RISC architecture has been implemented at U. C. Berkeley as part of a four quarter sequence of graduate courses in which students propose and evaluate architectural ideas, design LSI components, integrate those components into a VLSI chip, and finally test the actual chip. The CAD and testing environment in which this chip was created is also described.

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BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Séquin:CSD-82-106,
    Author= {Séquin, Carlo H. and Patterson, David A.},
    Title= {Design and Implementation of RISC I},
    Year= {1982},
    Month= {Oct},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1982/5449.html},
    Number= {UCB/CSD-82-106},
    Abstract= {The Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) is an architecture particularly well suited for implementation as a single-chip VLSI computer. It demonstrates that by a judicious choice of a small set of instructions and the design of a corresponding micro-architecture, one can obtain a machine with high throughput. The limited number of instructions and addressing modes leads to a small control section and to a short machine cycle time.  Such a machine also requires a much smaller layout effort and thus leads to a shorter design cycle.  <p>  Such a RISC architecture has been implemented at U. C. Berkeley as part of a four quarter sequence of graduate courses in which students propose and evaluate architectural ideas, design LSI components, integrate those components into a VLSI chip, and finally test the actual chip. The CAD and testing environment in which this chip was created is also described.},
}

EndNote citation:

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