Hummingbird: A Low-Cost Superscaler PA_RISC Processor, lecture by Stephen Undy
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Hummingbird: A Low-Cost Superscaler PA_RISC Processor, a lecture by Stephen Undy. The video was recorded in August, 1993. From University Video Communications' catalog: "Hewlett-Packard has designed a new superscalar PA-RISC processor, the PA7100LC, that’s targeted toward low-cost systems while achieving high-performance levels. It includes two integer ALU's, a floating point coprocessor, and a memory and I/O controller on a single VLSI chip. It implements several new features including multimedia-specific instructions. The cache system consists of an external combined instruction/data cache and a smaller internal instruction cache. Memory consists of standard DRAM's or SIMM's directly connected to the processor." Lot number: X6636.2013 Catalog number: 102624797
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