Basic of MIPS

Reduced instruction set computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "At about the same time, John L. Hennessy started a similar project called MIPS at Stanford University in 1981. MIPS focused almost entirely on the pipeline, making sure it could be run as 'full' as possible. Although pipelining was already in use in other designs, several features of the MIPS chip made its pipeline far faster. The most important, and perhaps annoying, of these features was the demand that all instructions be able to complete in one cycle. This demand allowed the pipeline to be run at much higher data rates (there was no need for induced delays) and is responsible for much of the processor's performance. However, it also had the negative side effect of eliminating many potentially useful instructions, like a multiply or a divide."