@techreport{TR-IC-06-06, number = {IC-06-06}, author = {Ricardo Santos and Rodolfo Azevedo and Guido Araujo}, title = {The {2D-VLIW} Architecture}, month = {March}, year = {2006}, institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas}, note = {In English, 13 pages. \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract} This technical report presents the main aspects of the 2D-VLIW architecture. This architecture is being developed in the Computer Systems Laboratory at the Institute of Computing of the State University of Campinas. The main purpose of the 2D-VLIW architecture is to provide resources to carry out a broad class of applications through a compromise between architectural arrangement and compiler assistance. Some preliminary experiments have shown that this combination can achieve an appealing performance over mainstream architectures like VLIW and EPIC. } }