Showing papers by "Kemal Ebcioglu published in 2023"
Abstract: DAISY grew out of earlier VLIW experience at IBM Research where promising designs had the Achilles heel of not being able to run existing software. Dynamic and hidden translation of binary code for an existing ISA such as Power to a simple VLIW architecture by a just in-time VLIW parallelizer seemed to be an appealing and tractable way to address this compatibility issue. Both Power and any migrant VLIW machine – as the paper termed the target of the exercise – were practically Turing machines of course, so the ability to run Power programs was never in doubt – only the ability to do so with improved performance and low overhead. Low overhead included both software translation overhead and any chip area needed purely for compatibility reasons.