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Adding a vector unit to a superscalar processor

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Rhodes, Greece

Pages: 1 - 10

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:1-58113-164-X

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Francisca Quintana	Departamento de Informatica y Sistemas, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria-Las Palmas, Spain
Jesus Corbal	Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Barcelona, Spain
Roger Espasa	Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Barcelona, Spain
Mateo Valero	Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Barcelona, Spain

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SIGARCH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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