News - MIPS launches ARM Cortex-A15 competitor, Aptive

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Looks to take back a share of the embedded segment.

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MIPS cores are in a lot of stuff. The old MIPS instruction sets (of the 2000/3000 series era) were great because they were so easy to interpret. I wrote a simulated superscalar u-arch based on the MIPS R2000 ISA, which was fun because I could cross-compile to it with GCC.

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Originally Posted by Steve

.... I wrote a simulated superscalar u-arch based on the MIPS R2000 ISA, which was fun because I could cross-compile to it with GCC.

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:o Mate, you just out-geeked the internets. I'm staggered :o

;)

Well, it wasn't for fun... it was a coursework during my undergrad.

...although it turns out that it was fun! ;)