A single cycle VLSI CISC-based workstation: system overview and performance characteristics

The NexGen workstation is based on a VLSI processor chip set that brings advanced mainframe and workstation technologies to the industry standard desktop market. The processor is based on a complex instruction set architecture to support OS/2 applications. The processor achieves single-cycle execution of most instructions. The processor implementation requires 2.0 million transistors, plus an additional 6.5 million transistors in the cache RAMs (random-access memories).<
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