TERM PAPER

OF
ECE-201

(DIGITAL ELECTRONICS)

TOPIC:-STUDY OF
MICROPROCESSORS

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MR.KOMAL NITESH
CHOUDHARY

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 CONTENTS

1. INTODUCTION

2. HISTORY

3. MICROPROCESSOR DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE

4. CLASSIFICATION OF MICROPROCESSORS

5. MICROPROCESSOR APPLICATIONS

6. RECENTLY LAUNCHED MICROPROCESSORS

7. BIBLOGRAPHY
 MICROPROCESSORS

INTRODUCTION:

Microprocessors are regarded as one of the most important devices in our everyday machines
called computers. Before we start, we need to understand what exactly microprocessors are
and their appropriate implementations. Microprocessor is an electronic circuit that functions
as the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer, providing computational control.
Microprocessors are also used in other advanced electronic systems, such as computer
printers, automobiles, and jet airliners Typical microprocessors incorporate arithmetic and
logic functional units as well as the associated control logic, instruction processing circuitry,
and a portion of the memory hierarchy. Portions of the interface logic for the input/output
(I/O) and memory subsystems may also be infused, allowing cheaper overall systems. While
many microprocessors and single chip designs, some high-performance designs rely on a few
chips to provide multiple functional units and relatively large caches.

When combined with other integrated circuits that provide storage for data and programs,
often on a single semiconductor base to form a chip, the microprocessor becomes the heart of
a small computer, or microcomputer.

Microprocessors are classified by the semiconductor technology of their Design , by the

width of the data format they process; and by their instruction set . TTL technology is most
commonly used, while CMOS is favored for portable computers and other battery-powered
devices because of its low power consumption. ECL is used where the need for its greater
speed offsets the fact that it consumes the most power. Four-bit devices, while inexpensive,
are good only for simple control applications; in general, the wider the data format, the faster
and more expensive the device. CISC processors, which have 70 to several hundred
instructions, are easier to program than RISC processors, but are slower and more expensive.
Microprocessors have been described in many different ways. They have been compared with
the brain and the heart of humans. Their operation has been likened to a switched board, and
to the nervous system in an animal. They have often been called microcomputers. The
original purpose of the microprocessor was to control memory. That is what they were
originally designed to do, and that is what they do today. Specifically, a microprocessor is “a
component that implements memory.”

A microprocessor can do any information-processing task that can be expressed, precisely, as

a plan. It is totally uncommitted as to what its plan will be. It is a truly general-purpose
information-processing device. The plan, which it is to execute—which will, in other words,
control its operation—is stored electronically. This is the principle of “stored program
control”. Without a program the microprocessor can do nothing. With one, it can do anything.
Furthermore, microprocessors can only perform information-processing tasks. To take action
on the outside world, or to receive signals from it, a connection must be provided between the
microprocessor’s representation of information (as digital electronic signals) and the real
world representation.

HISTORY:

The first digital computers were built in the 1940’s using bulky relay and vacuum-tube
switches. Relays had mechanical speed limitations. Vacuum tubes required considerable
power, dissipated a significant amount of heat, and suffered high failure rates. Some systems
achieved processing rates up to 1,000 operations per second. In 1947, Bell Laboratories
invented the transistor, which rapidly replaced the vacuum tube as a computer switch for
several reasons, including smaller size, faster switching speeds, lower power consumption
and dissipation, and higher reliability. In the 1960s Texas Instruments invented the integrated
circuit, allowing a single silicon chip to contain several transistors as well as their
interconnections.

The first microprocessor was the Intel 4004, produced in 1971. Originally developed for a
calculator, and revolutionary for its time, it contained 2,300 transistors on a 4-bit
microprocessor that could perform only 60,000 operations per second. The first 8-bit
microprocessor was the Intel 8008, developed in 1972 to run computer terminals. The Intel
8008 contained 3,300 transistors. The first truly general-purpose microprocessor, developed
in 1974, was the 8-bit Intel 8080, which contained 4,500 transistors and could execute
200,000 instructions per second. By 1989, 32- bit microprocessors containing 1.2 million
transistors and capable of executing 20 million instructions per second had been introduced.
Reductions in both device size and power dissipation are essential in achieving these high
densities. Smaller device sizes also allow faster witching speeds, which in turn permit higher
processor clock rates. Increased density also lets designers add circuitry to increase the
amount of work performed within a cycle. On many benchmarks, high-end microprocessors
are two orders of magnitude faster than the DEC VAX- 11/780 minicomputer, a performance
standard in the 1970’s. Key distinctions between mainframe and high-performance
microprocessor based systems often are simply physical size, ability to handle large amounts
of I/O, and software issues.

MICROPROCESSOR DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE:

Microprocessors are fabricated using techniques similar to those used for other integrated
circuits, such as memory chips. Microprocessors generally have a more complex structure
than do other chips, and their manufacture requires extremely precise techniques. The first
step in producing a microprocessor is the creation of an ultra pure silicon substrate, a silicon
slice in the shape of a round wafer that is polished to a mirror-like smoothness. At present,
the largest wafers used in industry are 300 mm (12 in) in diameter. Economical
manufacturing of microprocessors requires mass production. Several hundred dies, or circuit
patterns, are created on the surface of a silicon wafer simultaneously. Microprocessors are
constructed by a process of deposition and removal of conducting, insulating, and semi
conducting materials one thin layer at a time until, after hundreds of separate steps, a
complex sandwich is constructed that contains all the interconnected circuitry of the
microprocessor. Only the outer surface of the silicon wafer— a layer about 10 microns (about
0.01 mm/0.0004 in) thick, or about onetenth the thickness of a human hair—is used for the
electronic circuit. The processing steps include substrate creation, oxidation, lithography,
etching, ion implantation, and film deposition. In the oxidation step, an electrically no
conducting layer, called a dielectric, is placed between each conductive layer on the wafer.
The most important type of dielectric is silicon dioxide, which is “grown” by exposing
the silicon wafer to oxygen in a furnace at about 1000°C (about 1800°F).
The oxygen combines with the silicon to form a thin layer of oxide about 75 angstroms deep
(an angstrom is one ten-billionth of a meter). Nearly every layer that is deposited on the
wafer must be patterned accurately into the shape of the transistors and other electronic
elements. Usually this is done in a process known as photolithography, which is analogous to
transforming the wafer into a piece of photographic film and projecting a picture of the
circuit on it. A coating on the surface of the wafer, called the photo resist or resist, changes
when exposed to light, making it easy to dissolve in a developing solution. These patterns are
as small as 0.13 microns in size. Because the shortest wavelength of visible light is about 0.5
microns, short wavelength ultraviolet light must be used to resolve the tiny details of the
patterns. After photolithography, the wafer is etched—that is, the resist is removed from the
wafer either by chemicals, in a process known as wet etching, or by exposure to a corrosive
gas, in a special vacuum chamber

In the next step of the process, ion implantation, also called doping, impurities such as boron
and phosphorus are introduced into the silicon to alter its conductivity. This is accomplished
by ionizing the boron or phosphorus atoms and propelling them at the wafer with an ion
implanter at very high energies. The ions become embedded in the surface of the wafer. The
thin layers used to build up a microprocessor are referred to as films. In the final step of the
process, the films are deposited using sputterers in which thin films are grown in a plasma; by
means of evaporation, whereby the material is melted and then evaporated coating the wafer;
or by means of chemical-vapor deposition, whereby the material condenses from a gas at low
or atmospheric pressure. In each case, the film must be of high purity and its thickness must
be controlled within a small fraction of a micron. Microprocessor features are so small and
precise that a single speck of dust can destroy an entire die. The rooms used for
microprocessor creation are called clean rooms because the air in them is extremely well
filtered and virtually free of dust. The purest of today's clean rooms are referred to, as class 1,
indicating that there is no more than one speck of dust per cubic foot of air.

CLASSIFICATION OF MICROPROCESSORS:

Several functional classifications can be used to classify microprocessors. The different types
of microprocessors used most frequently are as follows:

INTEL MICROPROCESSORS:
4004 (1970)
Intel's Ted Hoff and Federico Faggin designed and implemented (respectively) the first
general-purpose microprocessor. The 4004 processor, used in a hand-held calculator built by
Busicom of Japan, was part of a fourchip set called the 4000 Family:
· 4001 - 2,048-bit ROM memory
· 4002 - 320-bit RAM memory
· 4003 - 10-bit I/O shift register
· 4004 - 4-bit central processor

8008 (1972)
The 8008 increased the 4004's word length from four to eight bits, and doubled the volume of
information that could be processed. It was still an invention in search of a market however,
as the technology world was just beginning to view the microprocessor as a solution to many
needs.

8080 (1974)
The 8080 were 20 times as fast as the 4004 and contained twice as many transistors.
This 8-bit chip represented a technological milestone as engineers recognized its value and
used it in a wide variety of products. It was perhaps most notable as the processor in the first
kit computer, the Altair, which ignited the personal computing phenomenon.

8088 (1979)
Created as a cheaper version of Intel's 8086, the 8088 was a 16-bit processor with an 8-bit
external bus. This chip became the most ubiquitous in the computer industry when IBM
chose it for its first PC. The success of the IBM PC and its clones gave Intel a dominant
position in the semiconductor industry.

80286 (1982)
With 16 MB of addressable memory and 1 GB of virtual memory, this 16-bit chip is referred
to as the first "modern" microprocessor. Many novices were introduced to desktop computing
with a "286 machine" and it became the dominant chip of its time. It contained 130,000
transistors and packed serious compute power (12 MHz) into a tiny footprint.

80386 (1985), 80486 (1989)

The price/performance curve continued its steep climb with the 386 and later the 486 --32-bit
processors that brought real computing to the masses. The 386, which became the best-selling
microprocessor in history, featured 275,000 transistors; the 486 had more than a million.

4-BIT MICROPROCESSORS:
Historically, the 4-bit microprocessor was the first general purpose microprocessor
introduced on the market. The basic design of the early microprocessors was derived from
that of the desk calculator. The Intel 4004, a 4-bit design, was the grandfather of
microprocessors. Introduced in late 1971, the 4004 was originally designed for a Japanese
manufacturer as the processing element of a desk calculator; it was not designed as a general-
purpose computer. The shortcomings of the 4004 were recognized as soon as it was
introduced. But it was the first generalpurpose computing device on a chip to be placed on
the market. Many of the chips introduced at about the same time by other companies were, in
fact, mere calculator chips. Some of them were even serial-by-bit devices, 48 pins. This was
not due to physical, but rather to economic, constraints: industrial tester of the time was
generally limited to 40-pin DIPs. The ancestor of today’s 8-bit microprocessors was the Intel
8008, introduced in 1972-1973. The 8008 was not intended to be a general-purpose
microprocessor. IT was to be a CRT display controller for Data point. Taking into account all
of its design inadequacies and its limited performance, the 8008 was an overwhelming
success.

INTEL (8-BIT MICROPROCESSORS) :

The 8080, designed as a successor to Intel’s 8008, was the first powerful microprocessor
introduced on the market. Several other microprocessors of similar performance were
introduced on the market within a year after the 8080 appeared, and several additional
powerful designs were introduced later. Technically, however, the 8080 long remained the
most powerful product on the market. Furthermore, Intel was the first company to invest in
the development of support chips and software for its products. This ensured the continued
success of the 8080 because its performance was then sufficient for many applications. The
early 8080 competitors were introduced with at least a nine-month delay and failed

MOTORALA (8-BIT MICROPROCESSORS):

The 6800 was introduced by Motorola as a direct competitor to the 8080. The design of the
6800 was obviously inspired by the 8008 and the then prevalent minicomputer philosophy.
The 6800 has essentially the same internal architecture as the 8080, though there are some
differences at the register level. The internal architecture of the 6800 is equipped with tow
accumulators. The 6800 has a special indeed register (IX) that facilitates access to tables
stored in the memory. The 8080 does not have an indeed register but is equipped with register
pairs than can be used to provide a similar facility. The 6800 instructions reflect the fact that
it was introduced after the 8080. They tend to be somewhat more complex but generally
similar to those of the 8080. Depending on the function used in the comparison, either of the
two microprocessors can be said to be marginally faster. The most significant different in
performance is achieved not by comparing a standard 8080 to a standard 6800—their
performance is essentially similar—but by considering a faster version of either the 8080 or
the 6800. The 8080 is available in three version: the standard 8080A with a 2MHZ clock, the
8080A-2, and the 8080A-1 with a 3MHZ clock. The 6800 is also available in two versions.
The standard 6800 use a 1MHZ clock. However, the clock rates do not mean that the standard
6800 is twice as fast as the standard 8080A. The clock simply supplies the pulses needed by
the internal micro program of the control unit. In the average, the 8080 uses simpler
microinstructions and requires twice as many microinstructions as the 6800. It therefore uses
a faster clock. The overall performances of the 8080 and the 6800 are similar. A typical
instruction is executed in two microseconds on either microcomputer.

MICROPROCESSOR APPLICATIONS:

When microprocessors appeared, they were first used in computer systems for a negative
reason. In the early 1970’s there were few support chips and microprocessors were
programmed to perform functions that are now done by a wide variety of hardware chips. For
this reason assembling a complete microprocessor-based system required both hardware and
software expertise. Only five years later in 1976 companies realized that microprocessors
could be used to build inexpensive personal computers. It then took several more years to
manufacture computers that were adequate for business and professional purposes. Yet the
technology had been there all along. (Naturally with time costs have diminished and
integrated circuits have been improved). Many of the early microprocessor applications found
markets by accident rather than by design. New product development had generally been a
direct result of the dissemination of technical information.

In the early 1970s the necessary combination of hardware and software expertise was rarely
found outside the computer manufacturing industry. This was not perceived as a problem,
because when microprocessors were introduced, the computer establishment saw them only
as low-cost processors for simple control applications. In fact, the first 8-bit microprocessor,
the Intel 8008, was designed for direct control of a CRT display. Microprocessors are now
used for controlling virtually every computer peripheral that does not require bipolar speeds.
Initially, such applications were limited by the relatively low speed of early microprocessors.
But now, with the faster microprocessors coupled with specialized peripheral controller
chips, such as CRT and floppy disk controllers, it is possible to control fast devices such as
CRT’s and disks. With microprocessors, we have now entered the era of distributed systems.
In distributed systems, intercommunication between a number of processors is reduced to a
minimum because they do not interact in real-time but exchange data words or block. Each
processor is then a direct process controller that completely controls a process.
Such network may involve multiple microprocessors. Traditionally, a multiprocessor system
is one in which several processors interact with each other in real-time for control purposes.
Most systems involving networks of microprocessors do not interact so closely and therefore
do not qualify as “ multi microprocessor systems.”
.

RECENTLY LAUNCHED MICROPROCESSORS:

Intel’s Pentium-4 processor: The Pentium-4 is fabricated in Intel's 0.18-micron CMOS

process. Its die size is 217 mm2, power consumption is 50W. The Pentium 4 is available in
1.4GHz and 1.5Hz bins. At 1.5GHz the microprocessor delivers 535 SPECint2000 and 558
SPECfp2000 of performance. Currently it is the second-performing general-purpose
microprocessor. The world champion is Compaq/Digital Alpha 21264B CPU delivering 544
SPECint2000 and 658 SPECfp2000 at 833 MHz. The previous Intel chip, Pentium-III
"Coppermine", had 442 SPECint2000 and 335 SPECfp2000 results at 1GHz. Pentium-4 is the
first completely new x86-processor design from Intel since the Pentium PRO processor, with
its P6 micro-architecture, was introduced in 1995. Pentium-4' micro-architecture is known as
NetBurst. It has many interesting features. Compared to the Intel Pentium-III processor,
Intel's NetBurst micro-architecture doubles the pipeline depth to 20 stages. In addition to the
L1 8 KB data cache, the Pentium 4 processor includes an Execution Trace Cache that stores
up to 12 K decoded micro-ops in the order of program execution. The on-die 256KB L2-
cache is non-blocking, 8 - way set associative. It employs 256-bit interface that delivers data
transfer rate of 48 GB/s at 1.5 GHz. The Pentium 4 processor expands the floating point
registers to a full 128-bit and adds an additional register for data movement. Pentium-4'
NetBurst micro-architecture introduces Internet Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2). This
extends the SIMD capabilities that MMX technology and SSE technology delivered by
adding 144 new instructions.
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