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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]
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. Based on an architectural specification of a processor, Justice estimates the area and per-access power consumption of each module in...
[March 9, 2007, 0:00]
Low-Power Implementation Of An OFDM Based Channel Receiver In Real-Time Using A Low-End Media Processor
White Papers The implementation of advanced channel receivers using low-end multimedia instruction set processors is a productive, flexible and cost effective alternative to custom hardware. This paper illustrates the implementation of a real-time and low-power...
[April 18, 2007, 1:00]
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE review
Reviews Code Morphing describes the job of a software layer that sits between programs and the Crusoe processor's compact, low-power VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) hardware engine. The Code Morphing software translates blocks of x86 instructions into...
[October 30, 2000, 23:00]
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]
Chip Giants Go Their Own Ways (Part 2)
News AMD is focusing on delivering a 64-bit processor on a modified version of the existing x86 instruction set for desktop processors. If you need something, add it," said AMD's Weber, referring to Intel's effort to push a brand new processor...
[October 7, 1999, 10:56]
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]
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]
Software On The Cheap review
Reviews There you'll find not only links to the software itself but advice, tips on using it effectively, FAQs on a variety of technical support issues and instruction materials. The most obvious choice for word processor, spreadsheet and presentation...
[May 29, 2003, 11:32]
AMD Could Hammer Intel - Analyst
News Intel is redesigning the processor from the ground up, making it effectively incompatible with existing software based on the x86 instruction set, but Hammer will continue to run x86 software in addition to specially-designed, more powerful...
[September 8, 2000, 15:44]
Intel, HP Say Merced Will Be EPIC
News The acronym stands for the four properties that will make up a big piece of IA-64 -- explicitly parallel instruction computing. The word Merced was mentioned only once during the presentation, when Intel fellow John Crawford said Merced would be...
[October 15, 1997, 10:41]
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'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]
G4 May Be Announced At Seybold
News It's a set of Single Instruction Multiple Data, or SIMD, operations, similar in concept to Intel's MMX and KNI. The G4 processor is going to be a major step forward for the Macintosh platform. Processor: 450-, 500-, 550-MHz G4 Processors (possible...
[August 26, 1999, 4:55]
Pentium 4: Worth The Price?
News That will change as developers begin to write applications for the architecture and the SSE2 instruction set. Consumers who buy a Pentium 4 system to use as a word processor will see only a relatively small bump in performance.
[August 25, 2000, 9:00]
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]
Intel To Debut Celerons In March
News Intel will also add the Intel SSE (single-instruction, multiple data extensions) multimedia instruction set, sources said. While the two chips will be based on the same technology, Intel's high-end processor brand, the Pentium III, will offer...
[February 29, 2000, 9:33]
Intel To Unleash New, Improved Celerons
News In the past, the two chips had also been held apart by manufacturing process and multimedia instruction sets. Celeron buyers, McCrea said, are focused on processor clock speed and overall system price, instead of details such as bus speeds.
[March 29, 2000, 9:07]
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]
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. Perhaps I should ask Mike Fister, who as head of Intel's server processor group has been...
[May 14, 2004, 19:00]
