• DocumentCode
    426926
  • Title

    PLX FP: an efficient floating-point instruction set for 3D graphics

  • Author

    Yang, Xiao ; Lee, Ruby B.

  • Author_Institution
    Princeton Archit. Lab. for Multimedia & Security, Princeton Univ., NJ, USA
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    27-30 June 2004
  • Firstpage
    137
  • Abstract
    3D graphics is an important component in the workload of today´s computing platforms. Many ISA extensions for 3D graphics have been proposed and implemented. We describe PLX FP, a new floating-point extension to the PLX architecture, designed to support very efficiently the essential operations needed for the 3D graphics pipeline. Very high performance floating-point 3D graphics processing is achieved, using a low-cost PLX processor.
  • Keywords
    computer architecture; computer graphics; floating point arithmetic; instruction sets; multimedia computing; pipeline processing; 3D graphics pipeline; 3D graphics processing; ISA extensions; floating-point extension; floating-point instruction set; multimedia processing; parallel instruction set architecture; pipeline processing; Computer architecture; Computer graphics; Hardware; Instruction sets; Microprocessors; Multimedia computing; Pipelines; Power generation economics; Registers; Rendering (computer graphics);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Multimedia and Expo, 2004. ICME '04. 2004 IEEE International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8603-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICME.2004.1394144
  • Filename
    1394144