Title :
Multimedia enhanced general-purpose processors
Author :
Wong, Stephan ; Cotofana, Sorin ; Vassiliadis, Stamatis
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands
Abstract :
This paper proposes a multimedia enhanced general purpose processor (GPP) architecture. An M+GPP enhanced architecture embodies a (regular) GPP architecture and a multimedia extension. The multimedia extension consists of a number of new multimedia dedicated instructions and (possibly new) hardware units to support their execution. Additionally, reconfigurable hardware units (RHUs) to support the execution of the new multimedia dedicated instructions are discussed. Finally, some implications of applying the M+GPP concept to the superscalar and VLIW GPP architectures are presented
Keywords :
instruction sets; multimedia systems; parallel architectures; reconfigurable architectures; M+GPP enhanced architecture; VLIW; multimedia dedicated instructions; multimedia enhanced general purpose processor; processor architecture; reconfigurable hardware units; superscalar architectures; Bridges; Digital signal processing; Hardware; VLIW;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia and Expo, 2000. ICME 2000. 2000 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6536-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICME.2000.871050
