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
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);
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia and Expo, 2004. ICME '04. 2004 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8603-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICME.2004.1394144
