performance simulated at over 2.5x that of the previous design [2]. 4-way simultaneous
multithreading (SMT) further increases utilization of the 8 integer and 4 floating point
execution units by allowing concurrent execution of up to 4 independent program threads.
Figure 20.1.1 is a block diagram for this … To support 8-wide superscalar issue, the
instruction fetch logic must assemble a group of 8 valid instructions each cycle. This block is …