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VAX vector architecture

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Dileep Bhandarkar,

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ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, Volume 18, Issue 2SI

Pages 204 - 215

https://doi.org/10.1145/325096.325145

Published: 01 May 1990 Publication History

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The VAX Architecture has been extended to include an integrated, register-based vector processor. This extension allows both high-end and low-end implementations and can be supported with only small changes by VAX/VMS and VAX/ULTRIX operating systems. The extension is effectively exploited by the new vectorizing capabilities of VAX FORTRAN. Features of the VAX Vector Architecture and the design decisions which make it a consistent extension of the VAX Architecture are discussed.

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VAX vector architecture
1. Computer systems organization
2. Hardware
  1. Electronic design automation
    1. High-level and register-transfer level synthesis

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cover image ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News

ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News Volume 18, Issue 2SI

Special Issue: Proceedings of the 17th annual international symposium on Computer Architecture

June 1990

356 pages

ISSN:0163-5964

DOI:10.1145/325096

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ISCA '90: Proceedings of the 17th annual international symposium on Computer Architecture
May 1990
378 pages
ISBN:0897913663
DOI:10.1145/325164
Chairmen:
Jean-Loup Baer,
Larry Snyder,
James Goodman

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Published: 01 May 1990

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