Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!ctrsol!cica!iuvax!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!l.cc.purdue.edu!cik From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: VLIW Architecture Summary: But what is the architecture? Keywords: vliw Message-ID: <1626@l.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 1 Oct 89 11:43:40 GMT References: <251FCB3F.12366@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1050@m3.mfci.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department Lines: 21 In article <1050@m3.mfci.UUCP>, cutler@mfci.UUCP (Ben Cutler) writes: > In article <251FCB3F.12366@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4g6ad@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Custeau RD) writes: | > | > I am looking for references or information on VLIW architectures for | >a fourth-year architecture seminar. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > A good ``introductory'' text is ``Bulldog: A Compiler for VLIW Architectures'', > by John Ellis, which won the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award in 1985. It's > available from MIT Press. For information on a commercial VLIW > implementation, contact Multiflow Computer at (203) 488-6090. As one who always finds ways to use the architecture that the compiler writers did not think about, I maintain that this book helps little. Why is it the case that people in the computing field think that someone can understand a computer in ignorance of its instruction set and the temporal operation of those instructions? -- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907 Phone: (317)494-6054 hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet, UUCP)