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Very long instruction word (VLIW) refers to instruction set architectures that are designed to exploit instruction-level parallelism (ILP). A VLIW processor allows programs to explicitly specify instructions to execute in parallel, whereas conventional central processing units (CPUs) mostly allow programs to specify instructions to execute in sequence only.
One goal of EPIC was to move the complexity of instruction scheduling from the CPU hardware to the software compiler, which can do the instruction scheduling statically (with help of trace feedback information). This eliminates the need for complex scheduling circuitry in the CPU, which frees up space and power for other functions, including ...
In-order execution, 128-bit VLIW, integrated memory controller Efficeon: 2004 In-order execution, 256-bit VLIW, fully integrated memory controller Cyrix Cx5x86: 1995 6 [3] Branch prediction Cyrix 6x86: 1996 Superscalar, superpipelined, register renaming, speculative execution, out-of-order execution DLX: 5 eSi-3200: 5 In-order, speculative ...
Other CPU designs include some multiple instructions for vector processing on multiple (vectorized) data sets, typically known as MIMD (Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data) and realized with VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) and EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing). The Fujitsu FR-V VLIW/vector processor combines both technologies.
Some microcoded CPU designs with a writable control store use it to allow the instruction set to be changed (for example, the Rekursiv processor and the Imsys Cjip). [19] CPUs designed for reconfigurable computing may use field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). An ISA can also be emulated in software by an interpreter. Naturally, due to the ...
Further advancement of compiler and memory technologies leads to emerging very long instruction word (VLIW) processors, where the compiler controls the schedule of instructions and handles data hazards. NISC is a successor of VLIW processors. In NISC, the compiler has both horizontal and vertical control of the operations in the datapath.
The Lx architecture is closer to the original VLIW architecture defined by the Trace processor series from Multiflow than to the EPIC architectures exemplified by the IA-64. Precisely, the Lx is a symmetric clustered architecture, where clusters communicate through explicit send and receive instructions.
The parallelism is statically defined by the programmer. In this respect (and obviously due to the large instruction word width), the TTA architecture resembles the very long instruction word (VLIW) architecture. A TTA instruction word is composed of multiple slots, one slot per bus, and each slot determines the data transport that takes place ...