DocumentCode
1483233
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
Volume
16
Issue
4
fYear
1996
fDate
8/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
10
Lastpage
20
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;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Micro, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0272-1732
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/40.526921
Filename
526921
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