Timeline for How to efficiently design the opcode for a CPU?
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| Jan 27, 2015 at 23:12 | comment | added | Benjoyo | But I don't get what kind of optimization this brings. It doesn't help me with the circuit design. What is the goal when using Huffman coding for opcode? | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 15:53 | comment | added | Dzarda | @Benjoyo I can imagine a scenario with the spare bits being used for variations of the most used instructions, thus providing more functionality. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 15:41 | comment | added | Benjoyo | Huffman coding wont work for a fixed length encoding, right? | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 14:38 | history | answered | Dzarda | CC BY-SA 3.0 |