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The motivations in chapter 2 and the review of past processor models in chapter 3 suggest that a multithreaded processor may meet the requirements for high performance real-time and best-effort computing. This chapter describes a multithreaded processor, Anaconda, which was designed with real-time and best-effort requirements in mind. The underlying model is based upon data driven microthreads (further details in the next section). A microthread, in this context, is a nonpreemptable control-flow unit of code which accepts up to 16 input parameters, in a data-flow manner, before execution commences. During execution, data is passed to other microthreads and messages are posted to the memory system.
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Moore, S.W. (1996). Anaconda — A Multithreaded Processor. In: Multithreaded Processor Design. The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 358. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1383-0_7
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