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About Earl
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My name is Earl Killian. This is my personal web
page. I like to read (history, politics, fiction,
science, science fiction), and these pages contain
pointers to a few books I recommend and pointers to
interesting things on the web. I like to muse on the
way things should be and these pages include some of
my thoughts and ideas. I am vegan and a supporter of
animal rights, and these pages include a few quotes
and pointers on these subjects. I have a strong
interest in technology and public policy that will
eliminate the world’s greenhouse pollution. I have three
battery-only powered electric vehicles (a
Nissan Leaf, a
and a
Tesla Model S 85, and a
Solectria Force),
and these pages have some EV analysis. I do not currently have a fossil car.
I once built a solar (passive solar heating plus
PV),
straw bale home, but I no longer live there. I currently live
in Los Altos.
My current home has three solar systems (PV, domestic hot water,
and pool) and a heating/cooling retrofit. Finally, my politics,
values, and essays here reflect my interest and appreciation for
non-violence and pacifism.
The opinions expressed herein are my own and do not reflect upon
any organization, despite any association I might have.
Monthly Quote
Quote for May:
Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive
the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is
preferable never to enter one.
— Yanis Varoufakis
About Earl
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Contact information
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Off-site pages of mine
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My collections
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My writings
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Personal stuff
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Major programs that I’ve authored or worked on
- Pixie, predecessor Moxie, and successor Mixie, and associated tools
pixstats, moxstats, and mixstats
- MIPS u-code compiler procedure integrater
- MIPS u-code compiler code generator (co-author John Ho)
- Pastel — an off-color language and Pascal compiler (primary author Jeff Broughton)
- Amber — an operating system for the LLNL S1 project (many authors)
- Praxis — language definition and implementation (with Bob Morgan and Art Evans)
- BBN Satellite IMP (minor role)
- ITS Emacs (the original, in TECO) — a 1% contributor
(primary author Richard M. Stallman)
- CRTSTY
- Trantor — Communications operating system
(with Charles Frankston and Eugene Ciccarelli
for Steve Orszag)
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Instruction Set Architectures or extensions on which I’ve worked
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S-2: a RISC-like successor to the LLNL S-1
(circa 1984-1985)
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MIPS III: the 64-bit extension of the MIPS II ISA
(circa 1987-1991)
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MIPS V: the SIMD media extension
(circa 1996, primary work done by others)
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MIPS MDMX: the SIMD DSP/media-processing extension
(circa 1996, primary work done by others)
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MIPS16: the LSI Logic compact code ISA
(circa 1996, primary work done by LSI)
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Tensilica Xtensa: compact embedded ISA designed for
configurability and extensibility
(circa 1998)
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Tensilica Vectra I ISA and prototype (configurable SIMD,
non-VLIW media/DSP extensions)
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Tensilica Vectra II ISA (configurable SIMD, VLIW media/DSP
extensions)
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Tensilica Bitstream coprocessor ISA and implementation
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Tensilica Galois Field coprocessor ISA and implementation
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Processor micro-architectures that I helped to design
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LLNL S-2 (simple RISC-like pipelined ECL processor)
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MIPS R3000 (cache improvements of the R2000)
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MIPS R4000 (superscalar)
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QED R4600/R4700 (low-cost, low-power)
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Tensilica Xtensa (configurability, extensibility)
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My old email addresses
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MIT
- EAK@ML (also EAK@MIT-ML, EAK@MIT-ML.ARPA)
- EAK@AI (also EAK@MIT-AI, EAK@MIT-AI.ARPA)
- EAK@MC (also EAK@MIT-MC, EAK@MIT-MC.ARPA)
- and probably EKillian@MIT-Multics
- BBN: EKILLIAN@BBN-TENEXE (or EKILLIAN@BBNE)
- LLNL: eak@mordor.s1.gov, eak@s1-c.arpa
- MIPS: earl@mips.com
- QED: earl@qedinc.com
- SGI: earl@sgi.com
- Tensilica: earl@tensilica.com
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NIC Handles (e.g. whois -h whois.networksolutions.com
or www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/)
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ARIN Handles (e.g. whois -h whois.arin.net or ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl)
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My U.S. Patents
- 5,027,270 — Instruction streaming FPO
- 5,398,328 — Software endian switching FPO
- 5,420,992 — Address and word ISA extension FPO
- 5,479,630 — Hybrid virtual/physical cache FPO
- 5,568,630 — Extended word size and address space FPO
- 5,572,713 — Reverse Endian FPO
- 5,574,877 — TLB with two physical pages per virtual tag FPO
- 5,696,958 — Method and apparatus for reducing delays following the execution of a branch instruction in an instruction pipeline FPO
- 5,864,703 — Method for providing extended precision in SIMD vector arithmetic operations FPO
- 5,933,650 — Alignment and ordering of vector elements for single instruction multiple data processing FPO
- 6,092,187 — Instruction prediction based on filtering FPO
- 6,266,758 — Alignment and ordering of vector elements for single instruction multiple data processing FPO
- 6,282,633 — High data density RISC processor FPO
- 6,425,076 — Instruction prediction based on filtering FPO
- 6,477,683 — Automated processor generation system for designing a configurable processor and method for the same FPO
- 6,477,697 — Adding complex instructions extensions to a microprocessor FPO
- 6,760,888 — Automated processor generation system for designing a configurable processor and method for the same FPO
- 6,854,046 — Configurable memory management unit FPO
- 7,020,854 — Automated processor generation system for designing a configurable processor and method for the same FPO
- 7,036,106 — Automated processor generation system for designing a configurable processor and method for the same FPO
- 7,159,100 — Method for providing extended precision in SIMD vector arithmetic operations FPO
- 7,197,625 — Alignment and ordering of vector elements for single instruction multiple data processing FPO
- 7,219,212 — Load/store operation of memory misaligned vector data using alignment register storing realigned data portion for combining with remaining portion FPO
- 7,346,881 — Method and apparatus for adding advanced instructions in an extensible processor architecture FPO
- 7,376,812 — Full-Text Vector co-processor for configurable and extensible processor architecture FPO
- 7,437,700 — Automated Processor Generation System and Method for Designing a Configurable Processor Delphion
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Programming languages that I contributed to in
design discussions
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Network protocols that I helped define long long ago
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