ILP architectures: general

• Trends in computer architecture; see [Corporaal, 1997], chapter 2, and also [Rau and Fisher, 1993]:
  • Performance of microprocessors.
  • VLSI developments.
  • Architecture developments and architecture design space.
• Consequences of pipelining and superpipelining [Kunkel and Smith, 1986, Abnous and Bagherzadeh, 1994, Clark, 1987, Jouppi and Wall, 1989, Hennessy and Patterson, 1996].