Very Long Instruction Word
Very Long Instruction Word
VLIW architectures are sometimes classified as a type ofstatic superscalar architecture. They are static in thesense that which units operate in parallel is determined bythe instruction rather than by dynamic scheduling at run time.
Producing code for VLIW machines is difficult; trace scheduling is a helpful compiler technique.
The most famous VLIW machine was built by (the late)Multiflow Computer, Inc.