An Introduction To Very-Long Instruction Word (VLIW) Computer Architecture
White Papers It is important to distinguish instruction-set architecture—the processor programming model—from implementation—the physical chip and its characteristics. VLIW microprocessors and superscalar implementations of traditional instruction sets share...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Codemorphing: Fresh As A DAISY
News There's more than one way to guarantee software compatibility between X86-based software and very long instruction word processors. Last month, the very long instruction word (VLIW) project at IBM's TJ Watson Research Centre released DAISY into...
[November 30, 2000, 7:53]
A Digital Television Receiver Constructed Using A Media Processor
White Papers This paper describes the implementation of the audio subsystem of an ATSC receiver on a Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processor. Sophisticated software development tools and a clean interface structure enabled a very short, hierarchical...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Modeling Wire Delay, Area, Power, And Performance In A Simulation Infrastructure
White Papers To illustrate its capabilities, the authors simulate a number of Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) architectures. IBM present Justice, a set of extensions to the Liberty simulation infrastructure that model chip area, wire length, and power...
[March 9, 2007, 0:00]
Intel Unveils Its 80-core Processor
News Instead, the chip uses a VLIW (very long instruction word) architecture, a simpler approach to computing than the x86 instruction set. The computing elements are very basic and do not use the x86 instruction set used by Intel and AMD's chips, which...
[February 12, 2007, 9:15]
FR-V Single-Chip Multicore Processor: FR1000
White Papers To realize the low power consumption and low-cost equipment needed to decode high definition broadcasts, Fujitsu has developed a single-chip multicore processor FR1000 that integrates four 8-way, Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) FR-V processor...
[June 2, 2006, 1:00]
Sandblaster Low-Power Multithreaded SDR Baseband Processor
White Papers Subsequently, Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processors have been employed, but architecturally visible side effects have imposed restrictions on parallelism due to interrupt and latency considerations - particularly if all loads must complete...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Chip Wars: Now It's Best Of Three
News The underpinnings of Alpha, UltraSparc and Power -- a technology called reduced instruction set computing (RISC) -- has just received a vote of no confidence, boosting the prospects of Itanium's very long instruction word (VLIW) design and putting...
[June 26, 2001, 10:27]
Transmeta To Help AMD Push Into Servers
News Code-morphing software translates instructions written for Intel or AMD-based computers into Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) commands that can be understood by Transmeta's Crusoe chip and then back again.
[January 3, 2001, 15:20]
Transmeta Mulls Server Move
News We will launch a very long instruction word (VLIW) processor 256 bits wide next year," he predicted. Transmeta plans a processor with twice the instruction width of today's chips, as Toshiba jumps aboard the bandwagon with a Crusoe-based Libretto
[May 8, 2001, 9:45]
Transmeta's Crusoe: How It Works
News Code morphing software "changes the X86 instructions into VLIW (very long instruction word) instructions", said Doug Laird, vice president of product development at Transmeta. The Crusoe design, using a VLIW architecture, can handle, for example...
[January 20, 2000, 9:28]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Now, I'm not quite sure I can square that with the Otellini Utterance, even if I use 64-bit integer mathematics backed up with very long word instruction sets. Some of us were woken from our keynote stupor long enough to take notes.
[May 14, 2004, 19:00]
Sun Touts Its New Chip As Pure MAJC, Part II
News MAJC uses a VLIW, or very long instruction word, architecture. They're getting very fast. Programs can be structured so various parts can be run in parallel. An application has the potential of running N-times faster if you have N-processors.
[April 25, 2000, 8:40]
Transmeta's Low Power Finds Place In Supercomputers
News The difference is architectural -- Crusoe translates Intel instructions to its own native, low-power very long word instruction set (VLIW) before running them, which needs only a quarter of the transistor count of the chips it emulates.
[May 20, 2002, 12:47]
Transmeta Promises To Pump Up The Power
News Code Morphing Software serves as part of the processing engine that is Crusoe, by translating code from the X86 instruction set into its own very long instruction word (VLIW) language. After less than a year in the market, the startup chipmaker is...
[November 15, 2000, 9:04]
Compaq's Transmeta Diss: No Big Deal?
News Due to the way the Crusoe chip works, by converting X86 instructions into its own Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) language and then optimising those instructions, it does not always show the best benchmark performance.
[November 7, 2000, 21:26]
Compaq, Dell Shy Off Crusoe Chip
News Code Morphing Software translates code, such as an application, written for X86 processors such as an Intel Pentium, into the language of Transmeta's own chip architecture, which is known as VLIW or very long instruction word.
[June 29, 2000, 7:06]
AMD Could Hammer Intel - Analyst
News IA-64 uses an instruction set completely different from x86, called EPIC, which combines elements of RISC (reduced instruction set computing) and VLIW (very long instruction word) computing. Intel is redesigning the processor from the ground up...
[September 8, 2000, 15:44]
