@inproceedings{lampson1980a,
author = {Lampson, Butler and Pier, Kenneth A.},
title = {A Processor for a High-Performance Personal Computer},
organization = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers},
booktitle = {7th IEEE Symposium on Computer Architecture},
year = {1980},
month = {May},
abstract = {A description is given of the design goals, microarchitecture, and implementation of the microprogrammed processor for a compact high performance personal computer. This computer supports a range of high level language environments and high bandwidth I/O devices. Besides the processor, it has a cache, a memory map, main storage, and an instruction fetch unit; these are described in other papers. The processor can be shared among 16 microcoded tasks. The machine has a 50 ns microcycle, and can execute a simple macroinstruction in one cycle; the available I/O bandwidth is 640 Mbits/sec. The entire machine, including disk, display and network interfaces, is implemented with approximately 3000 MSI components, mostly ECL 10K; the processor is about 35% of this. In addition there are up to 4 storage modules, each with about 300 16K or 64K RAMs and 200 MSI components, for a total of 8 Mbytes. Several prototypes are currently running.},
publisher = {IEEE, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4503-7390-6},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/a-processor-for-a-high-performance-personal-computer/},
pages = {146-160},
note = {Reprinted in 25 years of the International Symposia on Computer Architecture (selected papers), 1998, pp 180-194 (ISBN 978-1-58113-058-4). Also in Technical Report CSL-81-1, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (related file).},
}