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PA-8200 (PCX-U+) processor

Overview

The PA-8200 is a 64-bit PA-RISC processor from HP that extended the original 64-bit PA-8000 soon after its release. Several aspects of the PA-8000 were improved with the PA-8200, released in 1997: branch prediction, TLB miss rates and cache sizes.

The PA-8200 should offer improved performace, compatibility with existing applications and short time to market. The availability of new 4 Mb SRAMs with faster access times allowed for increased CPU speed and larger caches. Smaller changes include an increase to the BHT and TLB as high benefit, low risk improvements.

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References

  1. Four-Way Superscalar PA-RISC Processors (PDF, 190 KB) Anne P. Scott et al (August 1997: Hewlett-Packard Journal)
  2. HP Pumps Up PA-8x00 Family (archive.org mirror) Linley Gwennap (October 1994: Microprocessor Report, Volume 10 Number 14). [Article reprint for cpu.hp.com]
  3. HP's Latest PA-RISC Microprocessor Evolution Enables 50 Percent Application Performance Boost Hewlett-Packard (October 1996: HP press release). [Article mirror for hp.com]

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