[CST-2] VLIW and signal processors

[Martin Harper]

Year 2000, Paper 7, Question 3 - most of it is easy, but one 
three-marker threw me: "Why have VLIW architectures been used only for 
special-purpose applications such as Digital Signal Processors?"

News to me. Speculating wildly, it might be because DSPs tend to have 
good instruction level parallelism, or because people are more willing 
to rewrite their code in these very CPU-intensive applications - but I'm 
just guessing here...

Martin