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ORG ; TWENTY-THREE
PENTIUM
AND RISC
PROCESSORS
The x86 PC
Assembly Language, Design, and Interfacing © 2010, 2003, 2000, 1998 Pearson Higher Education, Inc.
By Muhammad Ali Mazidi, Janice Gillespie Mazidi and Danny Causey Pearson Prentice Hall - Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458
OBJECTIVES
this chapter enables the student to:
• List the design enhancements of the x86
microprocessors from 80486 to Pentium® 4.
• Discuss the advantages of the 5-stage pipeline
over the 2-stage pipeline.
• Explain how the burst cycle is used to increase
memory cycle times for read/write operations.
• Compare the cache sizes of x86 processors
from 486 to Pentium® 4.
• List three ways that designers can increase the
processing power of a CPU.
The x86 PC
Assembly Language, Design, and Interfacing © 2010, 2003, 2000, 1998 Pearson Higher Education, Inc.
By Muhammad Ali Mazidi, Janice Gillespie Mazidi and Danny Causey Pearson Prentice Hall - Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458
OBJECTIVES (cont)
this chapter enables the student to:
• List design enhancements of the Pentium® over
previous-generation x86 microprocessors.
• Describe the impact on performance of the
®
64-bit data bus of the Pentium .
• Describe superscalar architecture and Harvard
®
architecture and their use in the Pentium .
• List the unique features of RISC architecture
compared to CISC and describe the impact on
processing speed and program de