Author_Institution :
Software & Silicon Syst. Ltd., India
Abstract :
An overview of various media processors´ architecture is presented in this short tutorial. The media processors discussed here provide compute powers in terms of billions of operations per second along with the memory bandwidth required to sustain those computations. Other mainstream processor architectures are also extending their instruction sets with multimedia-assist instructions. A brief discussion of the trends in these extensions is also presented as part of this tutorial
Keywords :
VLSI; instruction sets; microprocessor chips; multimedia computing; instruction sets; media processors; memory bandwidth; multimedia-assist instructions; Animation; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Graphics; Hardware; Instruction sets; Pricing; Speech processing; VLIW; Videoconference;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI Design, 1997. Proceedings., Tenth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hyderabad
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7755-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICVD.1997.568083
