Emulating a Complex Instruction Set Computer with a Reduced Instruction Set Computer
Kevin McNeley, Veljko M. Milutinović · IEEE Micro · 1987
GaAs now allows up to 30K transistors per chip. With such a limitation, can you build a 32-bit CISC on a single GaAs chip? Yes, if you build a reduced instruction set computer and emulate the 32-bit CISC on it.