CPU

Super Computers

1943 ENIAC

  EDVAC

   BINAC

   1951 UNIVAC

  ORDVAC

  UNIVAC

  UNISYS

ILLIAC

EDSAC

Manchaster Baby

CTC Computer Terminal Corporation

Datapoint 3300

ERA Remington Rand UNIVAC

CDC

CRAY

1955: Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory (Caltech / MIT / Bell labs)

1957: Fairchild Semiconductor (traitorous eight)

1968: Intel (Noyce and Moore)

1974: Zilog (Federico Faggin)

Z80 is a 5V spinoff from an Intel 8080

Now Littlefuse > IXYS > Zilog

CPU-Z Z270 i5-7600K

Fairchild, Intel, Motorola, TI, MOS, Zilog, Sun, Dec, IBM, ARM

Fairchild IC's (traitorous eight)
Intel 4004, 8008, 8088
Zilog Z80
Motorola 6800
MOS 6502
Acorn ARM

RISC Berkley / IBM
MIPS Stanford
IBM PowerPC
SUN Sparc
DEC Alpha

MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, EM64T, VT-x, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, TSX

Moore's Law / Transistors

	Integration level	Year	Logic gates
SSI	Small Scale Integration	1964
MSI	Medium Scale Integration	1968	20-200
LSI	Large‐scale integration	1970	200-2000	10 µm
VLSI	Very large‐scale integration	1980	2.000-20.000	1.5 µm
ULSI	Ultra large‐scale Integration	1990	20.000-200.000	600 nm
SLSI	Super large‐scale integration	2000	200.000- 2 million	130 nm
		2010	2 million - 20 million	22 nm
		2020	20 million - 200 million	5 nm

CISC v.s. RISC

RISC is a philosophy to use simpler instructions to achieve the same as complex instruction. For example for AES rowshifting an Intel can use XMM instructions to shift multiple rows in one operation, while RISC processors need to loop through the bytes and execute simpler instructions. It takes longer to execute, but without SIMD the processor is smaller, cheaper and wins in power efficiency.

Intel CISC

PCLMULHQHQDQ xmmreg,xmmrm

ARM RISC

result = operand1 EOR operand2;

for s = 0 to segments-1

Elem[result, s, 128] = AESSubBytes(AESShiftRows(Elem[result, s, 128]));

RISC

University of Berkeley	Intended for research
1981	RISC I	44,500 transistors, 31 instructions, 78 32-bit registers
RISC Foundation	Open ISA free to implement
2015	RISC V

MIPS

1976	IBM 801	first conceptual RISC processor
1980		DARPA VLSI Project University funding
	MIPS	Stanford University (John Hennessy)
1984		MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
1992		Acquired by SGI
1998		SGI spun off MIPS
2008		lost money on buying and selling Chipidea
2013		bought by Imagination Technologies (PowerVR)
2022		Adopted RISC-V

1997		Lexra based on MIPS-I instruction set (Not the core license)
1998		Patent on "unaligned loads and stores"
2003		Lexra bankrupt
2006	RTL8196E	Realtek continues to use Lexra Cores (RLX4181)

ARM

Cortex-A Microprocessors, with an MMU, for Rich OS e.g. BSD/Linux/Windows)

Cortex-R Realtime processors

Cortex-M Microcontrollers for RTOS Task Scheduling

ARMv7-M ISA

M0+ von neuman (instruction and data share the same bus)

M3

M4

M7

ARMv8-M

M23 Trustzone

M33

M35P

Armv8.1-MM55

M85

Segger

SEGGER J-Link EDU Mini - JTAG/SWD Debugger

https://thepihut.com/products/segger-j-link-edu-mini-jtag-swd-debugger

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3571

https://1bitsquared.com/products/black-magic-probe