18-mhz, 32-bit VLSI microprocessor
K.P. Burkhart, Forsyth, M.E. Hammer, D. Tanksalvala · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1983
This paper discusses how the heart of HP's new 32-bit VLSI computer system is the memory/processor module. The central processing unit in this module is an NMOS circuit containing 450000 transistors on a single chip operating at a clock frequency of 18 mhz. This compact CPU chip, which implements a 32-bit version of the HP 3000 computer's stack-based architecture, is designed and microprogrammed to support multiple-CPU operations within a single memory/processor module. Each CPU is capable of one-MIPS (million instructions per second) performance with very little performance degradation in multiple-CPU configurations. 1 ref.