29 Jul
2014
29 Jul
'14
7:45 a.m.
The Nicolet 1080 has 20 bit word but doesn't use
uCode. All of the instructions are decoded directly from
the 20 bits.
I'd have thought, with 19 bits, they'd have done the same.
There is little reason to have the intermediate layer unless the
ucode can be run from a faster ROM or RAM.
Dwight