Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW)
Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) Very long instruction word (VLIW) describes a computer processing architecture in which a language compiler or pre-processor breaks program instruction down into basic operations that can be performed by the processor in parallel. Or Very long instruction word (VLIW) is an instruction set architecture designed to take full advantage of instruction-level parallelism (ILP) for improved performance. Central processing units (CPU, processor) allow programs to specify instructions to execute in sequence only whereas a VLIW processor allows programs to explicitly specify instructions to execute in parallel. This design is intended to allow higher performance without the complexity inherent in some other designs. VLIW is sometimes viewed as the next step beyond the reduced instruction set computing ( RISC ) architecture, which also works with a limited set of relatively basic instructions and can usually execute more than one instruction at a time. The main a...