cshouse@ritcv.UUCP (Computer Science House (CSH)) (02/23/86)
Last September, Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation, introduced a general-purpose super-microprocessor, called the Clipper. The Clipper is a single-chip 32-bit microprocessor which uses a Harvard architecture for separate instruction and data paths, has combined cache and memory management chips (CAMMU), is highly pipelined with up to four instructions executing instruction prefetching, has an on-chip floating point, runs at 33 Mhz, and executes a load / store register-to-register RISC instruction set. The Clipper has CPU bursts at 33 MIPS and averages 5 MIPs. Computer Science House is about to begin a research project using the Clipper. Our intentions are to use some ideas from the VAX architecture to implement a high-performance general-purpose computer system which will rival the performance of a VAX 8600. If anyone is doing any work with Fairchild's Clipper Module, please contact us. Please respond to the net, as well as mailing directly to Computer Science House (CSH), Rochester Institute of Technology.