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From: astevens@acorn.co.uk (Ashley Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: VLIW references
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Date: 16 May 91 13:18:39 GMT
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In article <1991May13.192955.15766@cs.yale.edu> kuszewsk@euler.biology.yale.edu (John Kuszewski) writes:

>Hi!
>
>Can anyone send me some good references on VLIW?  On a related note, Teraplex,  
>Inc. (Champaign, IL) was working on a VLIW-based processor called the "MISC"  
>(minimal inst. set computing) chip.  They seem to have given up.  Does anyone  
>have any more details?

>From 'Electronics Times' May 16th :-

'Teraplex, the US processor architect, has closed its doors. It shut just
four weeks before delivering the design of its minimum instruction set
computing (MISC) chip to its foundry Atmel.

Jeff Glickman, Teraplex' chief scientist, said it was unable to get the $2M
it needed to complete the project "largely due to the vacuum caused the
Desert Storm".

The MISC chip promised high speed instruction level emulation of
microprocessors like the Sparc, Mips, and Intel i86 series. It did this by
using nine 'atomic' instructions to build up more complex instructions.'
 

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