I'm designing a five stage basic MIPS pipeline and ran into a small question. Why is the PC register 32 bits wide? Doesn't it just specify the address of the Instruction Memory to go to? Intuitively ...

British fabless chip designer Imagination Technologies has decided to reveal the inner workings of the MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages) instruction set to universities ...

MIPS, Inc. is a leading vendor of 32-bit licensable processor cores that are commonly found in set-top boxes and cable modems, among other products. In recent years, MIPS has augmented its cores with ...

The MIPS R5xxx, with applications ranging from routers to arcade games to digital set-top boxes, represents a variety of processors that implement the MIPS IV instruction set. The superscalar R5000, ...

MIPS Technologies has introduced two cores and a 16bit instruction set. The M14K and M14Kc have the same 1.5DMips/MHz performance as the firm’s existing 4K series, with which they share a five-stage ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- NEC Corp.'s microprocessor operation here today announced major enhancements to its embedded 64-bit RISC processor platform, adding a deeper pipeline architecture and ...

MIPS Technologies, the company that had been synonymous with the MIPS processor architecture, is now shifting its business model. Instead of designing MIPS chips, the company will be developing ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 2001--SandCraft Inc., a leader in the design of high-performance MIPS® processors, today announced its first product, a MIPS processor with speed grades up ...

MIPS Technologies, the company that had been synonymous with the MIPS processor architecture, is now shifting its business model. Instead of designing MIPS chips, the company will be developing ...

Imagination Technologies has added the embedded 32bit M-class M6200 and M6250 CPUs and high end P-class P6600 64bit CPU to its portfolio. The additions all build on the MIPS Release 6 architecture.