TriMedia CPU64 application development environment

Author

Pol, E.J.D. ; Aarts, B.J.M. ; van Eijndhoven, J.T.J. ; Struik, P. ; Sijstermans, F.W. ; Tromp, M. J A ; van de Waerdt, J.W. ; van der Wolf, P.

Author_Institution

Philips Res. Lab., Eindhoven, Netherlands

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

593

Lastpage

598

Abstract

The architecture of the TriMedia CPU64 is based on the TM1000 DSPCPU. The original VLIW architecture has been extended with the concepts of vector processing and superoperations. The new vector operations and superoperations need to be supported by the compiler and simulator to make them accessible to application programmers. It was our intention to support these new features while remaining compliant with the ANSI C standard. This paper describes the mechanisms which were implemented to achieve this goal. Furthermore, the optimization of applications needs to address the vectorization of the functions to be implemented. Some general guidelines for producing efficient vectorized code are given

Keywords

instruction sets; microprocessor chips; parallel architectures; parallel programming; program compilers; vector processor systems; ANSI C standard; TM1000 DSPCPU; TriMedia CPU64; VLIW; application development environment; compiler; superoperations; vector processing; vectorization; Assembly; Guidelines; Hardware; Processor scheduling; Program processors; Programming profession; Reduced instruction set computing; Registers; Streaming media; VLIW;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Design, 1999. (ICCD '99) International Conference on

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

ISSN

1063-6404

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0406-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCD.1999.808602

Filename

808602