• DocumentCode
    1161795
  • Title

    A comparison of RISC architectures

  • Author

    Piepho, Richard S. ; Wu, William S.

  • Author_Institution
    AT&T Comput. Syst., Naperville, IL, USA
  • Volume
    9
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1989
  • Firstpage
    51
  • Lastpage
    62
  • Abstract
    Three new RISC (reduced instruction set computer) architectures, the Intel i860, the Motorola 88000, and the Sun Microsystems Sparc, are compared. The relative importance of an architectural comparison, as opposed to a comparison of implementations, is discussed, followed by a high-level overview of each of the architectures. The relative strengths and weaknesses of the three architectures in a number of key areas are analyzed, and their overall relative strengths and weaknesses are summarized.<>
  • Keywords
    reduced instruction set computing; Intel i860; Motorola 88000; RISC architectures; Sun Microsystems Sparc; architectural comparison; Access protocols; Computer architecture; Hardware; Memory architecture; Memory management; Microcomputers; Proposals; Reduced instruction set computing; Sun; Vocabulary;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Micro, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0272-1732
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/40.31487
  • Filename
    31487
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1161795