Very Long Instruction Word Architectures

• Operating principles of VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) architectures [Colwell et al., 1987].
• Existing VLIWs: Mpact [Foley, 1996], TriMedia [Rathnam and Slavenburg, 1996], Multiflow [Schuette and Shen, 1993], VIPER [Abnous and Bagherzadeh, 1994], and TMS320C6x [Truong, 1997].
• The (abstract) HP PlayDoh architecture [Kathail et al., 1994].