SAMP: a general purpose processor based on a self-timed VLIW structure
- 1 September 1987
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
- Vol. 15 (4) , 32-39
- https://doi.org/10.1145/36974.36979
Abstract
A high-performance, general purpose processor has been designed, using various technology independent methods to improve performance. Its structure offers a large degree of parallelism and is adjusted to the application. A novel control unit, which asynchronously controls instruction execution by tokens, allows the evaluation of very complex expressions without any reference to clock cycles. The main memory communicates via 4 ports with the processor and avoids a bottleneck in accessing data. The processor performance is measured and compared with several commercial systems.Keywords
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