Article 76185 of comp.arch:
In article <3398139E.6EFF@virginia.edu>,
Michael D. Nahas <nahas@virginia.edu> wrote:
>I was read an article in the May 19th edition of the
>EE times, where IBM was researching a processor design
>using VLIW for the PowerPC.  Essentially, a simple
>processor would translate code from PowerPC to VLIW - this
>code would be stored in cache or memory - and then the 
>mian VLIW processor would run on the translated code.  The
>idea is similar to a lot of JIT compiler techniques for
>Java.  (Actually, the article was about running Java on
>a processor like this.  The only thing that would have to
>change is the translation program run by the simple 
>processor!)
>	I was wondering if anyone out there had any 
>comments on the feasability of such a project or any
>information on the project itself.

there are some interesting papers at the following url's:

	http://www.research.ibm.com/vliw/   general vliw stuff
	http://www.research.ibm.com/daisy/  emulation stuff

there's a pointer to the java paper on the daisy page.

andrew essen
ae@sgi.com