The Fuce processor: The Execution Model and The Programming Methodologies

Nowadays, development of processors which support concurrent multi-thread execution is becoming a trend. Most of these processors are aimed at exploiting instruction level parallelism (ILP). But many researchers feel that the limits of ILP exploitation are rapidly being reached. In addition, exploiting more ILP makes the circuitry of processor very complicated. We are taking another simpler approach, and developing a processor focused only on thread level parallelism (TLP). Our processor is named Fuce. it is based on the continuation model which is derived from the dataflow computing model. In this paper, we introduce the core concepts of Fuce, the programming model for Fuce and an overview of Fuce architecture. We also show simulation results.