Definitions for "Superscalar"
Keywords:  risc, fetching, clock, pipeline, cpu
This term describes a processor that is capable of executing more than one instruction during a processor cycle. Processors can do this by fetching multiple instructions in one cycle, deciding which instructions are independent of other instructions, and executing them.
A CPU architecture that allows more than one instruction to be executed in one clock cycle. Processors can do this by fetching multiple instructions in one cycle, deciding which instructions are independent of other instructions, and executing them.
Of a computer processor, being able to schedule operations for side-by-side execution. Typically, a superscalar processor can schedule an integer operation, a floating point operation and a memory operation for simultaneous execution in different pieces of hardware. Superscalar chips also make heavy use of pipelining.