CAD Project: WIll Crusoe Choke on Apple?
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AbstractWill Crusoe choke on Apple? - The question being: how does the new Transmeta Crusoe processor compare to the Apple G4. This is a comparison of two processors that claim to be RISC architectures. The Crusoe has been specifically designed for low power and adequate end user performance. The G4 has conformed to the more standard goal of absolute performance. It is our goal to give an un-biased analysis of whether the Crusoe will be able to keep up with a processor solely designed for performance. Our conclusions, as a group, will be based around three investigations by different group members. The first investigation will be a study of the features of the Apple G4 processor, by Stuart Moorhouse. The second will be a study of the features of the Transmeta Crusoe processor, by Paul Hulme. Leaving the final study to be an in depth comparison of the features of both processors, by Michael Hughes. Our fourth group member is involved in coordinating our efforts and producing the web page on which the final report is to be submitted. KeywordsCrusoe, Architecture, x86, performance, Instruction Set, RISC, CISC, branch-prediction, EEPROM, VLIW, atom, molecule, CMS, Code Morphing Software, SMP, Motherboard, interface, DDR, Northbridge, memory mapped I/O, LongRun, ADH, speculation, Pipelining, server, Gated Store Buffer, WCR, WCE, gigaflop, MPC7400, Velocity Engine, Pipeline, architecture, vector registers, 60x-bus
What's NewListed below are all the updates to the web page and general site news. Friday 3rd March Contents updated and final report ready for submission. Added a PDF of the whole project. Monday 28th Feb Been a bit quiet around here lately. I have been updating minor points of the website over the last couple of days, not really worthy of a statement here. Just upgraded the site navigation, hopefully it will confuse everybody. It now uses a tree system, so you go down the branches as you read different projects. Still awaiting the final content to go up, so I have disabled a lot of the links, so that dirty pages don't fill up people's caches. Tuesday 22nd Feb After ripping my hair out all morning, the website now actually works with Netscape!! All that remains now is to finish uploading the project material. Monday 21st Feb Getting late on Monday night. Really need to have this fully uploaded before tomorrow, or well, best not to think about it like that. Trying to upload it now, although I am behind ResNet, and it's going to be fun fun fun!!!!! Starting to upload the main portions of the web page. Taken the reports from the group and statements. Saturday 19th Feb It goes like this... Back to Top
Disclaimer & AcknowledgementsDisclaimer: The content of this web page is for a university project, all views on this page our simply our own. To form our opinions we have used many sources of information on the internet all of which have been noted in the links section of our site. disclaimer (dis'klA'm&r) n. Acknowledgments: Back to Top
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