Re: Question: use FPU as simple VLIW?

khays@sequent.com (Kirk Hays)
2 Apr 1996 23:42:25 -0500

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From: khays@sequent.com (Kirk Hays)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.compilers
Date: 2 Apr 1996 23:42:25 -0500
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
References: 96-03-006 96-03-207 96-03-209
Keywords: architecture, parallel

Kevin Baker <jenks@hevanet.com> writes:
> I was wondering if any ILP research has been done in the area of using
> the FPU as a sort of VLIW co-processor ...


You may also want to examine the architecture of the (now obsolete?)
Intel i860 processor, which exposed the VLIW-like interior of the FPU
for explicit assembly-language use.


Some very clever algorithms were developed to take advantage of this
feature.


No references handy, but I believe they are catalogued in the various
online bibliographies...
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Kirk Hays
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