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So back to your point, a lot of universities teach computer architecture based on MIPS since it was defined by Patterson and Hennessy (Hennessy also co-founded
by alexvoica 12y ago
So back to your point, a lot of universities teach computer architecture based on MIPS since it was defined by Patterson and Hennessy (Hennessy also co-founded MIPS Computer Systems Inc. and went into production with MIPS R2000 based on the MIPS I ISA).
MIPS is a very popular architecture, having shipped in over 800 million devices last year.
Now these universities that teach MIPS in their coursework have a chance to enhance the course by giving students access to the RTL too. When those students leave university, they will have the skills required to understand and work with a commercially-available CPU architecture.
- rjsw 12y agoDavid Patterson lead the Berkeley RISC project which is the ancestor of SPARC, he didn't have anything to do with MIPS.
- alexvoica 12y agoPatterson and Hennessy worked together to write http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Fifth-Edition-Quantitative/dp/012383872X http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Fifth-Edition-Qu... The vast majority of practical references in the book are based on the MIPS architecture (as an example of a RISC processor).
- rjsw 12y agoThe MIPS architecture isn't defined by that book. Earlier editions used DLX for the practical examples.