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       SEMINAR OF THE LABORATORY FOR COMPUTER DESIGN OF MATERIALS
        Institute for Computational Sciences and Informatics
  CSI 929  (http://science.gmu.edu/physics/seminar/schedule.html)
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		 EVALUATION OF RISC ARCHITECTURES

			 Daniel Tabak
	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
	           George Mason University

   Today's most prominent RISC systems may be differentiated by their
architecture, organization and implementation. Examples are:
               DEC Alpha AXP  21064, 21164.
       IBM, Motorola, Apple PowerPC. MPC 601, 603, 604, 620.
          Sun Microsystems and TI SuperSPARC. UltraSPARC.
              MIPS R4000 family, R8000, R10000.
                 Intel i860 family. i860XP.
               Motorola M88000 family. MC88110.
               HP Precision Arcitecture. PA7100.
In this seminar I will provide with a comparison of the above RISC 
systems from the standpoint of technology, architectural properties, 
ILP features, memory and cache hierarchy, pipeline structure, and 
multiprocessing features. In addition, a discussion on benchmark 
performance for the above systems and a comparison with the 
performance of Intel CISC Pentium will be addressed.

Reference:
D.Tabak, "Advanced Microprocessors", 2nd ed., McGraw Hill, NY, 1995.

                        Monday , May 6 1996
                               5:00 pm
                     Room 206, Science & Tech. I
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