Intel® wireless MMXTM technology: a 64-bit SIMD architecture for mobile multimedia

Author

Paver, N.C. ; Aldrich, B.C. ; Khan, M.H.

Author_Institution

Intel Corp., Austin, TX, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

6-10 April 2003

Abstract

The growing demand for multimedia rich applications in the wireless mobile domain challenges the capabilities of current wireless handheld devices. Optimizing instruction set architecture is a logical approach towards attaining higher performance in multimedia applications. Intel® wireless MMXTM technology is a 64-bit single instruction multiple data, (SIMD), coprocessor for the Intel® XScale™ microarchitecture. It accelerates multimedia applications in handheld and wireless devices by taking advantage of the inherent parallelism and data types of targeted applications. This paper provides an overview of the wireless MMX architecture, its instruction set, pipeline organization, and functional units. Initial benchmark results measured on silicon are also presented.

Keywords

coprocessors; land mobile radio; multimedia communication; parallel architectures; telecommunication computing; Intel XScale microarchitecture; Intel wireless MMXTM technology; SIMD architecture; SIMD coprocessor; benchmark results; functional units; instruction set; instruction set architecture; pipeline organization; silicon; single instruction multiple data coprocessor; wireless MMX architecture; wireless handheld devices; wireless mobile multimedia applications; Acceleration; Cellular phones; Coprocessors; Handheld computers; Microarchitecture; Parallel processing; Personal digital assistants; Pipelines; Silicon; Smart phones;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2003. Proceedings. (ICASSP '03). 2003 IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7663-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2003.1202355

Filename

1202355