mips stands for microprocessor without interlocked pipeline stages in computer architecture.
mips stands for microprocessor without interlocked pipeline stages in computer architecture.
what does mips stand for in computer architecture?
microprocessor without interlocked pipeline stages
in 1981, john l. hennessy began the mips ("microprocessor without interlocked pipeline stages") project at stanford university to investigate risc technology. the results of his research convinced him of the future commercial potential of the technology, and in 1984, he took a sabbatical to found mips computer systems. the company designed a new architecture that was also called mips, and introduced the first mips implementation, the r2000, in 1985. the r2000 was improved, and the design was introduced as the r3000 in 1988. these 32-bit cpus formed the basis of their company through the 1980s, used primarily in sgi's series of workstations and later digital equipment corporation decstation workstations and servers. the sgi commercial designs deviated from stanford mips by implementing most of the interlocks in hardware, supplying full multiply and divide instructions (among others). the designs were guided, in part, by software architect earl killian who designed the mips iii 64-bit instruction-set extension, and led the work on the r4000 microarchitecture.
mips architecture processors
there are multiple versions of mips: including mips i, ii, iii, iv, and v; as well as five releases of mips32/64 (for 32- and 64-bit implementations, respectively). the early mips architectures were 32-bit only; 64-bit versions were developed later. as of april 2017, the current version of mips is mips32/64 release 6. mips32/64 primarily differs from mips i–v by defining the privileged kernel mode system control coprocessor in addition to the user mode architecture.









































computer architecture courses in universities and technical schools often study the mips architecture. the architecture greatly influenced later risc architectures such as alpha.
mips architecture