A 533-MHz BiCMOS superscalar RISC microprocessor

Abstract

This 533-MHz BiCMOS very large scale integration (VLSI) implementation of the PowerPC architecture contains three pipelines and a large on-chip secondary cache to achieve a peak performance of 1600 MIPS. The 15 mm/spl times/10 mm die contains 2.7 M transistors (2M CMOS and 0.7 M bipolar) and dissipates less than 85 W. The die is fabricated in a six-level metal, 0.5-/spl mu/m BiCMOS process and requires 3.6 and 2.1 V power supplies.