Title :
Implementation of a streaming execution unit
Author :
Cheresiz, Dmitry ; Juurlink, Ben ; Vassiliadis, Stamatis ; Wijshoff, Harry A.G.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Adv. Comput. Sci., Leiden Univ., Netherlands
Abstract :
The Complex Streamed Instruction (CSI) set is an ISA extension targeted at multimedia applications. CSI instructions process two-dimensional data streams stored in memory, performing sectioning, data alignment and conversion between different packed data types all in hardware. It has been shown previously that CSI provides significant speedups compared to current media ISA extensions such as MMX and VIS. This paper presents a detailed design of a unit that can execute CSI instructions under the assumption that the unit is interfaced with the L1 data cache. In particular it is shown that the complex, two-dimensional, address-generation calculations can be performed in a pipelined fashion and implemented using a three-stage pipeline with acceptable delay and hardware cost.
Keywords :
cache storage; computer architecture; instruction sets; CSI instructions; ISA extension; L1 data cache; address-generation calculations; complex streamed instruction set; data alignment; delay; hardware cost; multimedia systems; streaming execution unit; two-dimensional data streams; Application software; Computer aided instruction; Computer science; Delay; Hardware; Instruction sets; Kernel; Laboratories; Pipelines; Streaming media;
Conference_Titel :
Digital System Design, 2002. Proceedings. Euromicro Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1790-0
DOI :
10.1109/DSD.2002.1115364