Plex: automatically generated microcomputer layouts
Mladen Buric, Carol Christensen, T. Matheson · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1983
A program has been developed that automatically generates VLSI layouts of microcomputers tailored to user specifications. Most major features of the generated microcomputers, such as the data-word size, the number of registers, and the instruction-memory and data-memory size, can be varied. The resulting microcomputers are small enough to be used as components on a custom VLSI chip. The machine have separate instruction and data space, three levels of pipelining, and execute an instruction every clock cycle. 1 ref.