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 VLIW
LastModified: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 

Short for Very Long Instruction Word, a microprocessor design technology. A chip with VLIW technology is capable of executing many operations within one clock cycle. Essentially, a compiler reduces program instructions into basic operations that the processor can perform simultaneously. The operations are put into a very long instruction word that the processor then takes apart and passes the operations off to the appropriate devices.

Compare with RISC and CISC.

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VLIW Architecture Emerges as Embedded Alternative
A February 2001 article from Embedded.com.

VLIW Microprocessors
A February 2000 article from ComputerWorld.

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Microprocessors

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architecture

CPU

instruction

instruction set

machine language

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