x86 Decoding Simulation in the Pentium P5
Channel: RTL Engineering
Date: 29/04/2022

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 original Pentium worked.

Chapters
0:00 Introduction and Decoding Rules
1:50 Simulation Overview
4:28 Simulation
5:03 Comparison with other Architectures

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