The Advanced Computer Architecture Laboratory (ACAL) was established in 1985 as a research unit of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan.ACAL researchers have made pioneering contributions to the design of high-performance computer systems such as, for example, Intel's Pentium chip and Compaq's Alpha chip, spearheading technical advances in pipelining, branch prediction, parallel processing, timing analysis and optimization, and automatic test generation