Title :
VIS speeds new media processing
Author :
Tremblay, Marc ; O´Connor, J. Michael ; Narayanan, Venkatesh ; He, Liang
Author_Institution :
Sun Microsyst. Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA
fDate :
8/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
UltraSparc´s Visual Instruction Set, described here in detail, accelerates some widely used media-processing algorithms by as much as seven times. Today´s new media, increasingly sophisticated 3D graphics environments, videoconferencing, MPEG video playback, 3D visualization, image processing, and so on, demand enhancements to conventional RISC instruction sets, which were not originally designed to handle such applications. The Visual Instruction Set (VIS) is a comprehensive set of RISC-style instructions targeted at accelerating this new media processing
Keywords :
computer graphics; instruction sets; reduced instruction set computing; 3D graphics environments; RISC-style instructions; UltraSparc; VIS; Visual Instruction Set; media processing; media-processing algorithms; Acceleration; Boundary conditions; Graphics; Image processing; Instruction sets; Partitioning algorithms; Reduced instruction set computing; Teleconferencing; Video on demand; Visualization;
Journal_Title :
Micro, IEEE
