The 32b computer instruction decoding unit
W. Richardson, Jon A. Bayliss, Stephen R. Colley, R. Kravitz, G.A. McCormick, Doran K. Wilde, L.L. Wittmer · 1981
The chip for instruction decoding unit to be discussed contains over 100,000 transistors and is 320 mils square. Its functions are to decode bit-aligned, variable-length instructions and produce microinstructions and data.