Title :
Integrated partition integer execution unit for multimedia and conventional applications
Author :
Tang, K.C. ; Wu, Angus K M ; Fong, Anthony S. ; Pao, Derek C W
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ., Hong Kong
Abstract :
Multimedia instruction set extensions such as Visual Instruction Set from Sun Microsystems, MMX technology from Intel Corporation and AMD adopt the SIMD approach to achieve significant performance improvement for multimedia applications. These existing solutions implement the multimedia unit either within floating point pipeline or sharing the control with integer execution unit and do not support conventional applications. This paper demonstrates the multimedia unit can be integrated into the integer execution unit to deliver benefits in both multimedia and conventional applications
Keywords :
instruction sets; multimedia computing; parallel architectures; MMX technology; SIMD approach; Sun Microsystems; Visual Instruction Set; instruction set extensions; multimedia applications; partition integer execution unit; Application software; Computer languages; Design engineering; Electronic design automation and methodology; Logic; Multimedia systems; Parallel processing; Pipelines; Streaming media; Sun;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 1998 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lisboa
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5008-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICECS.1998.814842
