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An Introduction To Very-Long Instruction Word (VLIW) Computer Architecture
White Papers VLIW architectures are distinct from traditional RISC and CISC architectures implemented in current mass-market microprocessors. VLIW microprocessors and superscalar implementations of traditional instruction sets share some characteristics...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Optimizing Compilers For VLIW Media Processors
White Papers A major concern in implementing multimedia applications on VLIW media processors is the availability of system software development tools that support code development and optimization within a C programming environment.
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
ACT: A Low Power VLIW Cluster Coprocessor For DSP Applications
White Papers The ACT (Adaptive Cellular Telephony) coprocessor architecture is described and analyzed using a set of widely used DSP algorithms. Performance and power are compared to equivalent implementations on ASIC and embedded processor platforms.
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Software Pipelining And Superblock Scheduling: Compilation Techniques For VLIM Machines
White Papers Compilers for VLIW and superscalar processors have to expose instruction-level parallelism to effectively utilize the hardware. This paper describes an effort to employ both software pipelining and superblock scheduling techniques in a VLIW compiler.
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Sun Touts Its New Chip As Pure MAJC, Part II
News MAJC will then use a dynamic compiler technology, called HotSpot, to translate instructions to its own VLIW set -- except in certain applications in which customers will compile their operating system or applications directly to the chip.
[April 25, 2000, 8:40]
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. They serve to run VLIW versions of X86 processors created by code...
[January 20, 2000, 9:28]
Codemorphing: Fresh As A DAISY
News Last month, the very long instruction word (VLIW) project at IBM's TJ Watson Research Centre released DAISY into open source, under the IBM open source licence. The DAISY dynamic compiler work is an offshoot of IBM'S VLIW initiative, which began in...
[November 30, 2000, 7:53]
Chip Wars: Now It's Best Of Three
News But symmetric multi-threading, like the VLIW design in Itanium, isn't much good without support from compiler software, Snyder said. The underpinnings of Alpha, UltraSparc and Power -- a technology called reduced instruction set computing (RISC...
[June 26, 2001, 10:27]
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. The audio system consists of independent, reusable, and exchangeable components which are connected to one another...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
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]
Guidelines For Software Development Efficiency On The TMS320C6000 VelociTI Architecture
White Papers The TMS320C6000 DSP belongs to a powerful generation of DSPs designed with the TI VelociTI™ advanced VLIW architecture. This white paper recommends programming and reuse techniques designed to develop efficient software applications for the Texas...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
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]
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]
Sound And Vision: A Technical Overview Of The Emotion Engine
White Papers This second part is probably less accessible than the first, because to understand it, you'll need to be familiar with CPU architectural concepts like pipelining, VLIW, SIMD, instruction latency, throughput, etc.
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
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. Advanced Micro Devices' next-generation Hammer...
[September 8, 2000, 15:44]
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]
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 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 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]
