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SimonW 23:15, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hacking on Wikipedia requires a strong stomach. Exerpted from "If?" by Rudyard Kipling:

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools

...then maybe you've got what it takes to write stuff here, and make it stick.

Here's my plan:

  • Microarchitecture
  • Physical implementation
    • Logic circuit families
      • CMOS
        • stack-latch flops
        • pulse flops
        • flops versus latches
        • stall signals
      • Domino
        • implicit latches
    • Phase-locked loops -- total mess!
    • CPU recurences
      • branch predictor
      • in-order dispatch
      • out-of-order issue
      • ALU-bypass
        • skewed datapath
        • conditional moves
      • integer load
      • Floating-point unit
        • Multiplication, including Booth recoding, modified Booth-2 and -3

Complete rewrites or new pages:

Major hacking:

In process: