The TRIPS project is developing a new class of technology-scalable, power efficient, high-performance microprocessor architectures called EDGE (Explicit Data Graph Execution) architectures.
The first EDGE architecture is called TRIPS, and has been designed at the University of Texas at Austin. The TRIPS prototype will offer higher instruction-level concurrency, and thus higher potential performance, than current industrial processors, with no changes to the programming model.
The TRIPS team is currently bringing-up first-silicon in the lab, and is developing the software needed to evaluate this new class of architectures on embedded, streaming, scientific, and desktop workloads. For more information, please send e-mail to cart@cs.utexas.edu.
The TRIPS architecture is composed of many copies of a small number of replicated tiles, reducing complexity and improving ease of design. Analogies in nature abound, such as the multiple independent eyes that make up the compound eye of a fly.
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