This book overviews VLSI technology constraints and introduces the architecture of the Trident processor, which tries to overcome these constraints and to satisfy the requirement of future applications. In addition, this book proposes the use of a multi-level instruction set architecture (ISA) to express fine-grain data parallelism to the Trident processor instead of using a huge transistor budget to dynamically extract it. Since the fundamental data structures for a wide variety of data parallel applications are scalar, vector, and matrix, our proposed Trident processor extends a scalar ISA...