MicroOps in the Pentium MMX
Channel: RTL Engineering
Date: 18/05/2022

A Short video talking about how the Pentium P5 and Pentium MMX used micro-operations compared with more traditional processors like the AMD K6, and the implications for the length pre-decoder of the Pentium MMX.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro and PMMX Overview
1:51 Comparison with K6
4:50 PMMX vs K6 uOP Throughput
6:50 Instruction Queue
7:37 uOp Decoding Analysis
 9:46 Parameter Elimination
11:02 Opcode table and Simplification