摘要:
There is disclosed a data processing system comprising a plurality of processors having different processing speeds and connected with a synchronous common bus, the processors being able to access a common memory connected with the common bus.A high frequency master clock signal generating means is provided in common for the processors of the system and the respective processors can be operated with the associated different machine cycles determined in accordance with the corresponding different processing speeds by frequency-dividing the master clock signal. In addition, each processor can be operated with different machine cycles depending on its operations.
摘要:
A data processing unit for executing variable length instructions in which operand specifiers for specifying addressing modes of operands are independent from operation codes for ascertaining operations is disclosed. An instruction fetch unit includes an instruction buffer for prefetching and retaining instructions from a memory and alignment means for aligning the instructions from the instruction buffer such that the instruction includes at least one operand specifier in one machine cycle, and provides it to a decoding unit. The decoding unit includes an operation code decoder and two operand specifier decoders to decode two operand specifiers simultaneously when the last operand specifier is a register designation mode. Each of the units executes instructions in a pipelined fashion and processes operands in a pipelined fashion.