x86 Decoding Simulation in the Pentium MMX
Channel: RTL Engineering
Date: 06/05/2022

Chapters have been marked, feel free to go directly to the simulation, skipping the intro and explanation.

A supplementary video for the longer video on x86 front end complexity. This is a toy simulation of how the decoder in the Pentium MMX worked.

Chapters
0:00 Introduction and Decoding Rules
1:34 Simulation Overview
4:15 Simulation
4:35 Comparison with other Architectures

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