Evaluating transport triggered architectures for scalar applications

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Henk Corporaal

چکیده

In transport triggered architectures (TTAs) the programming and operational model is mirrored when compared with regular RISC and VLIW architectures; instead of programming operations which cause data transports as side eeects, in TTAs the transports are programmed, where a transport may trigger an operation if necessary. Transports are therefore visible at the architecture level, and are completely programmer controlled. The main advantages of TTAs are its simplicity and exibility. Transport triggered architectures also have certain advantages with respect to scheduling freedom and transport utilization. This paper concentrates on a quantiication of advantages related to code generation for scalar (non-numeric) applications.

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