Detection and Parallel Execution of Independent Instructions

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn C-19, Issue 10, 1970, Pages 889-895

  Tjaden, Garold S ^a   Flynn, Michael J ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Executably independent instructions; instruction decoding; predecode stack; stack simulator; weakly independent instructions

Indexed keywords

CODES; COMPUTERS, DIGITAL; ITCOB; ROY;

EID: 0014866421     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-C.1970.222795     Document Type: Article

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