SAMP: a general purpose processor based on a self-timed VLIW structure

  • Authors:
  • Lothar Nowak

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. Kiel, Kiel, W. Germany

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
  • Year:
  • 1987

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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.