Integrated partition integer execution unit for multimedia and conventional applications

Author

Tang, K.C. ; Wu, Angus K M ; Fong, Anthony S. ; Pao, Derek C W

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ., Hong Kong

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

103

Abstract

Multimedia instruction set extensions such as Visual Instruction Set from Sun Microsystems, MMX technology from Intel Corporation and AMD adopt the SIMD approach to achieve significant performance improvement for multimedia applications. These existing solutions implement the multimedia unit either within floating point pipeline or sharing the control with integer execution unit and do not support conventional applications. This paper demonstrates the multimedia unit can be integrated into the integer execution unit to deliver benefits in both multimedia and conventional applications

Keywords

instruction sets; multimedia computing; parallel architectures; MMX technology; SIMD approach; Sun Microsystems; Visual Instruction Set; instruction set extensions; multimedia applications; partition integer execution unit; Application software; Computer languages; Design engineering; Electronic design automation and methodology; Logic; Multimedia systems; Parallel processing; Pipelines; Streaming media; Sun;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 1998 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisboa

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5008-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.1998.814842

Filename

814842