Fairchild's Clipper Module

[Computer Science House CSH]

Last September, Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation,
introduced a general-purpose super-microprocessor, called the Clipper.
The Clipper is a single-chip 32-bit microprocessor which uses a Harvard
architecture for separate instruction and data paths, has combined
cache and memory management chips (CAMMU), is highly pipelined
with up to four instructions executing instruction prefetching,
has an on-chip floating point, runs at 33 Mhz, and executes a
load / store register-to-register RISC instruction set.  The Clipper
has CPU bursts at 33 MIPS and averages 5 MIPs.

Computer Science House is about to begin a research project using
the Clipper.  Our intentions are to use some ideas from the VAX
architecture to implement a high-performance general-purpose computer
system which will rival the performance of a VAX 8600.

If anyone is doing any work with Fairchild's Clipper Module, please
contact us.  Please respond to the net, as well as mailing directly
to Computer Science House (CSH), Rochester Institute of Technology.