| 摘要 |
A sideband VLIW processing technique is provided. The sideband VLIW processing technique utilizes processor executable code and sideband information that identifies grouping and scheduling of the processor instructions to be executed by a sideband VLIW processor. The sideband information is ignored by processors without sideband VLIW processing capability, thus providing backward compatibility for the processor executable code. The sideband VLIW processor does not have the run-time scheduling circuitry of superscalar processors and instead has circuitry to read and interpret sideband information. Multiple sets of sideband information can be provided for a single corresponding executable program, one set for each different sideband VLIW processor implementation. |
