Embracing and Extending 20th-Century Instruction Set Architectures.

A case study regarding vector architecture is presented. An example is provided for improving old network architecture with a small set of extensions. Network engineers extended an 80x86 architecture and PowerPC to support a full vector architecture. Vector architectures grab sets of data elements s...

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Published in:Computer (00189162) Vol. 40; no. 4; pp. 68 - 76
Main Authors: Gebis, Joe, Patterson, David
Format: Case Study
Published: IEEE Apr2007
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