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How VLIWs Were Adopted as Digital Signal Processors

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In an industry, where purported breakthroughs become fads and then rapidly fade away, very long instruction word (VLIW) technology has had a long and exceptionally successful life. Conceived by Joseph… Click to show full abstract

In an industry, where purported breakthroughs become fads and then rapidly fade away, very long instruction word (VLIW) technology has had a long and exceptionally successful life. Conceived by Joseph A. (Josh) Fisher more than 35 years ago,1 VLIW had limited commercial success in minicomputers and then was eclipsed by single-chip central processing units (CPUs)—the “killer micros.”

Keywords: vliws adopted; signal processors; digital signal; adopted digital

Journal Title: IEEE Micro
Year Published: 2021

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