Very-Long Instruction Word architectures: an alternative way to organize processors. Instead of the trend toward hardware making complex decisions for scheduling machine-level instructions in programs, VLIW systems do scheduling at compile time.
Goals: make VLIW and other novel ILP architectures fully compatible with common extant architectures such as PowerPC, x86, S/390, and Java Virtual Machine.
IBM's toolkit is based on tools developed for video and other applications in 1995-1996. Their toolkit reflects the Unix philosophy of shells, processes and generic tools, and demonstrate a shell-based implementation of the protocol and its usefulness...