Title :
How TI adopted VLIW in digital signal processors
Author :
Simar, Ray ; Tatge, Reid
Abstract :
Josh Fisher\´s seminal idea found its way from complex, power-hungry bit-slice designs to widely used single-chip DSP. 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 about 30 years ago, VLIW had limited commercial success in minicomputers and then was eclipsed by single-chip central processing units (CPUs)-the "killer micros".
Keywords :
digital signal processing chips; instruction sets; logic design; minicomputers; multiprocessing systems; Texas Instruments; VLIW; digital signal processor; minicomputer; power-hungry bit-slice design; single-chip DSP; single-chip central processing unit; very long instruction word technology; Central Processing Unit; Computer architecture; Digital signal processing; Digital signal processors; Instruments; Microcomputers; Reduced instruction set computing; Scalability; Signal design; VLIW;
Journal_Title :
Solid-State Circuits Magazine, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSSC.2009.933438
