A wide-issue architecture is a computer processor that issues more than one instruction per clock cycle.1 They can be considered in three broad types:
- Statically-scheduled superscalar architectures execute instructions in the order presented; the hardware logic determines which instructions are ready and safe to dispatch on each clock cycle.
- VLIW architectures rely on the programming software (compiler) to determine which instructions to dispatch on a given clock cycle.2
- Dynamically-scheduled superscalar architectures execute instructions in an order that gives the same result as the order presented; the hardware logic determines which instructions are ready and safe to dispatch on each clock cycle.3
References
References
- "Scheduling for Superscalar & Multiple Issue Machines" (PDF).
- "Wide Issue and Speculation". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-10-23.
- Martin, Milo. "Superscalar" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-10-09. Retrieved 2015-10-30.