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Hacking on Wikipedia requires a strong stomach. Exerpted from "If?" by
Rudyard Kipling:
- If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
- Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
- Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
- And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools
...then maybe you've got what it takes to write stuff here, and make it stick.
Here's my plan:
- Microarchitecture
- Physical implementation
- Logic circuit families
- CMOS
- stack-latch flops
- pulse flops
- flops versus latches
- stall signals
- Domino
-
Phase-locked loops -- total mess!
- CPU recurences
-
branch predictor
- in-order dispatch
- out-of-order issue
- ALU-bypass
- skewed datapath
- conditional moves
- integer load
- Floating-point unit
- Multiplication, including Booth recoding, modified Booth-2 and -3
Complete rewrites or new pages:
Major hacking:
In process: