mbjr@maxwell.ece.cmu.edu (Mauricio Breternitz) (09/29/89)
Subject: VLIW architecture You should also look at the IBM VLIW. Some of the main diferences with the Multiflow are: - the architecture is geared towards a different compilation technique (Percolation Scheduling) which is very effective for branch-intensive code; - the conditional-execution model of operation. This also helps in branch-intensive code. Some relevant papers are: "Some Design Ideas for a VLIW Architecture for Sequential Natured Software"by K.Ebcioglu Proc. IFIP WG 10.3 Working Conference on Parallel Processing, M. Cosnard et. al (editors) North Holland, 1988 "A global resource-constrained parallelization technique" K. Ebcioglu and A.Nicolau, ICS'89, Crete, Greece "A Development Environment for Horizontal Microcode" IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, May 1988 Mauricio Breternitz CMU-Carnegie-Mellon University ECE-Electrical and Computer Eng Dept mbjr@maxwell.ece.cmu.edu