R10000/R12000: Major Features
- Functional Units
- Integer 2
- Floating Point 1 (can do mul-add)
- Load/Store 1
- Address calc 1
- Features to find instruction-level parallelism:
- Superscalar: 4 instructions per cycle
- Speculation beyond branches (4 entry branch stack)
- Branch prediction
- Dynamic out-of-order execution
- In-order graduation