Bob Rau
Encyclopedia
Bantwal Ramakrishna "Bob" Rau (1951 – December 10, 2002) was a computer engineer. Rau was a founder and chief architect of Cydrome
, where he helped develop the Very long instruction word
technology that is now standard in modern computer processors. Rau was the recipient of the 2002 Eckert–Mauchly Award.
Cydrome
Cydrome was a computer company started in 1984 in San Jose, California whose mission was to develop a numeric processor. The founders were David Yen, Wei Yen, Ross Towle, Arun Kumar, and Bob Rau...
, where he helped develop the Very long instruction word
Very long instruction word
Very long instruction word or VLIW refers to a CPU architecture designed to take advantage of instruction level parallelism . A processor that executes every instruction one after the other may use processor resources inefficiently, potentially leading to poor performance...
technology that is now standard in modern computer processors. Rau was the recipient of the 2002 Eckert–Mauchly Award.
External links
- IEEE Biography of Rau
- Hewlett Packard obituary
- http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/02-12-128