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Also known as DLX processor, DLX architecture

The DLX (pronounced "Deluxe") is a RISC processor architecture designed by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, the principal designers of the Stanford MIPS and the Berkeley RISC designs (respectively), the two benchmark examples of RISC design (named after the Berkeley design).

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CPU architecture.name
DLX
CPU architecture.designer
John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson
CPU architecture.bits
32-bit
CPU architecture.introduced
1994
CPU architecture.version
1.0
CPU architecture.design
RISC
CPU architecture.type
Load–store
CPU architecture.encoding
Fixed
CPU architecture.branching
Condition register
CPU architecture.endianness
Bi-endian
CPU architecture.extensions
None, but MDMX & MIPS-3D could be used
CPU architecture.open
Yes
CPU architecture.gpr
32 (R0=0)
CPU architecture.fpr
32 (paired DP for 32-bit)

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The DLX (pronounced "Deluxe") is a RISC processor architecture designed by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, the principal designers of the Stanford MIPS and the Berkeley RISC designs (respectively), the two benchmark examples of RISC design (named after the Berkeley design).

The DLX is essentially a cleaned up (and modernized) simplified Stanford MIPS CPU. The DLX has a simple 32-bit load/store architecture, somewhat unlike the modern MIPS architecture CPU. As the DLX was intended primarily for teaching purposes, the DLX design is widely used in university-level computer architecture courses.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “DLX” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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