What does VLIW stand for?

The Very Long Instruction Word -- Single Instruction Multiple Data (VLIW-SIMD) DSP architecture delivers breakthrough performance and low power consumption.

TRIPS includes a new "block-oriented execution" scheme that sounds suspiciously like the very long instruction word (VLIW) processing techniques that IBM's supercomputing gurus have been playing around with since the mid-1980s.

The architecture exploits multiple levels of parallelism: * task-level parallelism between the system processor, DSP processor and DPU * data-level parallelism (DLP) with multiple lanes executing the same instructions on different data in parallel * instruction-level parallelism (ILP) via very long instruction word (VLIW) driving multiple arithmetic logic units (ALUs) per lane * sub-word single instruction multiple data (SIMD) in which each ALU can operate on multiple operands On the DPU, a kernel function runs identically on every lane processing different data.

The Jazz DSP, also available in pre-configured options, is a very long instruction word (VLIW) architecture that provides high performance through parallel execution of operations.

Transmeta Corp has been granted a new patent - number 5,958,061 - which confirms the now generally-held belief that it is working on a very long instruction word processor that runs x86 and Windows-based applications.

The Jazz DSP, also available in pre-configured options, is a very long instruction word (VLIW) architecture that provides high performance through parallel execution of operations.

However, the most likely bet seems to be a very long instruction word (VLIW) processor that runs x86 and Windows-based applications up to three times as fast as current Intel Corp CPUs.

To chip designers, NitroSIM's very long instruction word (VLIW) turbocharger appears to process the simulation exactly like a standard processor, but orders of magnitude faster and with no change to the existing simulation flow.