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• A superscalar processor :

  • Issues multiple instructions per clock cycle from a sequential stream
  • Dynamic scheduling of execution units (scheduling done in hardware)

• An Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processor :

  • Issues one very ‘wide’ instruction per clock cycle; this instruction contains multiple operations
  • Static scheduling of execution units (done by compiler).

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