software thread integration for converting tlp to ilp on vliw epic architectures by won so a thesis submitted the graduate faculty of north carolina state university in partial fulfillment requirements degree master science computer engineering raleigh 2002 approved ________________________________ _________________________________ chair advisory committee 2 abstract multimedia applications are pervasive modern systems they generally require significantly higher level performance than previous workloads embedded have driven digital signal processor makers adopt high like very long instruction word or explicitly parallel computing despite many efforts exploit parallelism application typical utilization levels compiler generated code range from one eighth half because single stream has limited sti is technique which interleaves multiple threads at machine increases number independent instructions allowing generate more efficient schedule and hence faster runtime we developed techniques use focusing
