DocumentCode
2449290
Title
Multimedia enhanced general-purpose processors
Author
Wong, Stephan ; Cotofana, Sorin ; Vassiliadis, Stamatis
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands
Volume
3
fYear
2000
fDate
2000
Firstpage
1493
Abstract
This paper proposes a multimedia enhanced general purpose processor (GPP) architecture. An M+GPP enhanced architecture embodies a (regular) GPP architecture and a multimedia extension. The multimedia extension consists of a number of new multimedia dedicated instructions and (possibly new) hardware units to support their execution. Additionally, reconfigurable hardware units (RHUs) to support the execution of the new multimedia dedicated instructions are discussed. Finally, some implications of applying the M+GPP concept to the superscalar and VLIW GPP architectures are presented
Keywords
instruction sets; multimedia systems; parallel architectures; reconfigurable architectures; M+GPP enhanced architecture; VLIW; multimedia dedicated instructions; multimedia enhanced general purpose processor; processor architecture; reconfigurable hardware units; superscalar architectures; Bridges; Digital signal processing; Hardware; VLIW;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Multimedia and Expo, 2000. ICME 2000. 2000 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
New York, NY
Print_ISBN
0-7803-6536-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICME.2000.871050
Filename
871050
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