The design of an asynchronous MIPS R3000 microprocessor

A.J. Martin, A. Lines, R. Manohar, M. Nystrom, P. Penzes, R. Southworth, U. Cummings, Tak Kwan Lee
Proceedings Seventeenth Conference on Advanced Research in VLSI  
The design of an asynchronous clone of a MIPS R3000 microprocessor is presented. In 0:6 m CMOS, we expect performance close to 280 MIPS, for a power consumption of 7 W. The paper describes the structure of a high-performance asynchronous pipeline, in particular precise exceptions, pipelined caches, arithmetic, and registers, and the circuit techniques developed to achieve high throughput.
doi:10.1109/arvlsi.1997.634853 dblp:conf/arvlsi/MartinLMNPSC97 fatcat:vz5okylqiva2nejemvgh3bs7xy