Anyone playing with the 8x300

Dwight K. Elvey dwight.elvey at amd.com
Sat May 14 13:46:46 CDT 2005


>From: shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com
>
>> also must have done a bitslice designs at one time or another
>
>I always thought of the 8x300 as a near-bitslice processor... bipolar,
>data port, etc.  While it doesn't chain together to make bigger
>wordsizes like AMD2901/Intel 3002, it really was a programmable
>sequencer very much like those bitslice parts.
>
>Tim.
>

Hi
 With the way it had rotates and masking through th I/O bus,
I could see how one could sequentially chain several processors
with only a cycle per processor delay.
Dwight




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