At the end of this presentation, the presenters aim to:

Describe a Pentium 1: its functions & characteristics.

Give a brief history of the development

of Pentium 1.
At the end of this presentation, the presenters aim to:

Compare Pentium 1 to other microprocessors.

Pentium is a registered
trademark that is
included in the brand
names of many of
Intel's x86-compatible
microprocessors, both
single- and multi-core.
The name Pentium was
derived from
the Greek pente (πέντε),
meaning 'five', and
the Latin ending -ium, a
name selected after courts
had
disallowed trademarking of
number-based names like
"i586" or "80586" (model
numbers cannot always be
trademarked).
 is a CPU design strategy based
on the insight that simplified
The original Pentium is
instructions can provide higher
an extremely modest performance if this simplicity
design by today's enables much faster execution
standards, and when it of each instruction
was introduced in 1993
it wasn't exactly a
blockbuster by the
standards of its RISC
contemporaries, either.
Reduced Instruction Set
Computing
It had two five-stage integer
pipelines, which Intel
designated U and V, and
one six-stage floating-point
pipeline. The chip's front-
end could do dynamic describes a system for
branch prediction, but as
representing numbers that
we'll learn in a moment most
would be too large or too small
of its front-end resources
to be represented as integers
were spent on maintaining
backwards compatibility with
the x86 architecture.
 Introduction Date March 22, 1993
Process 0.8 micron
Transistor Count 3.1 million
Clock Speed at Introduction 60 and 66 MHz
Cache Sizes 8K instruction, 8K data
Features MMX added in 1997
 part of the CPU which allows
the program to make decisions,
and also to perform jumps
(changes to the PC) and
procedure calls
…is divided into five (5) stages:

Technique used to
• Instructions are
fetched from the
enable one instruction cache
Prefetch/Fetch
instructionandtoaligned in
complete withprefetch
each buffers for
decoding.
clock cycle
• Instructions are
decoded into the
Pentium's internal
Decode 1 instruction format.
Branch prediction
also takes place at
this stage.
…is divided into five (5) stages:
• Same as Decode 1, and
microcode ROM kicks in
Decode 2 here, if necessary. Also,
address computations
take place at this stage.

• Integer hardware
Execute executes the
instruction

• The results of the

computation are
Write-back written back to the
register file.
used by the central processing
unit of a computer to reduce
the average time to access
memory
It is a registered
trademark that is
included in the brand
names of many of
Intel's x86-compatible
microprocessors, both
single- and multi-core.
The answer in no. 1
came from this Greek
word meaning “five”.
What is this Greek
word?
What does RISC stand
for?
It describes a system
for representing
numbers that would
be too large or too
small to be represented
as integers
It is a CPU design
strategy based on the
insight that simplified
instructions can
provide higher
performance if this
simplicity enables much
faster execution of each
instruction
It is used by the central
processing unit of a
computer to reduce the
average time to access
memory
It is a part of the CPU
which allows the
program to make
decisions, and also to
perform jumps
(changes to the PC)
and procedure calls
It is a technique used to
enable one instruction
to complete with each
clock cycle.
The date when the
Pentium 1 was
released.
The clock speed of
Pentium 1.
Give at least 3 stages of
the pipeline of Pentium.
• The Intel Microprocessor Family: Hardware &
Software Principles & Applications
• Wikipedia
• http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2004/07/p
entium-1.ars/
• http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=37153,
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