AltiVec Extension to PowerPC Accelerates Media Processing Export

@article{diefendorff2000, abstract = {There is a clear trend in personal computing toward multimedia-rich applications. These applications will incorporate a wide variety of multimedia technologies, including audio and video compression, 2D image processing, 3D graphics, speech and handwriting recognition, media mining, and narrow/broadband signal processing for communication. In response to this demand, major microprocessor vendors have announced architectural extensions to their general-purpose processors in an effort to improve their multimedia performance. Intel extended IA-32 with MMX and SSE (alias KNI), Sun enhanced Sparc with VIS, Hewlett-Packard added MAX to its PA-RISC architecture, Silicon Graphics extended the MIPS architecture with MDMX, and Digital (now Compaq) added MVI to Alpha. This article describes the most recent, and what we believe to be the most comprehensive, addition to this list: PowerPC's AltiVec, AltiVec speeds not only media processing but also nearly any application in which data parallelism exists, as demonstrated by a cycle-accurate simulation of Motorola's MPC 7400, the heart of Apple G4 systems}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, author = {Diefendorff, Keith and Dubey, Pradeep K. and Hochsprung, Ron and Scales, Hunter}, citeulike-article-id = {500256}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=624350}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/40.848475}, doi = {10.1109/40.848475}, issn = {0272-1732}, journal = {IEEE Micro}, keywords = {altivec, cpu, matrix, vector}, month = {March}, number = {2}, pages = {85--95}, posted-at = {2006-02-09 19:10:12}, priority = {2}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press}, title = {AltiVec Extension to PowerPC Accelerates Media Processing}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/40.848475}, volume = {20}, year = {2000} }

TY - JOUR ID - diefendorff2000 L3 - citeulike-article-id:500256 N2 - There is a clear trend in personal computing toward multimedia-rich applications. These applications will incorporate a wide variety of multimedia technologies, including audio and video compression, 2D image processing, 3D graphics, speech and handwriting recognition, media mining, and narrow/broadband signal processing for communication. In response to this demand, major microprocessor vendors have announced architectural extensions to their general-purpose processors in an effort to improve their multimedia performance. Intel extended IA-32 with MMX and SSE (alias KNI), Sun enhanced Sparc with VIS, Hewlett-Packard added MAX to its PA-RISC architecture, Silicon Graphics extended the MIPS architecture with MDMX, and Digital (now Compaq) added MVI to Alpha. This article describes the most recent, and what we believe to be the most comprehensive, addition to this list: PowerPC's AltiVec, AltiVec speeds not only media processing but also nearly any application in which data parallelism exists, as demonstrated by a cycle-accurate simulation of Motorola's MPC 7400, the heart of Apple G4 systems IS - 2 JF - IEEE Micro SN - 0272-1732 AD - Los Alamitos, CA, USA EP - 95 TI - AltiVec Extension to PowerPC Accelerates Media Processing PB - IEEE Computer Society Press VL - 20 SP - 85 KW - altivec KW - cpu KW - matrix KW - vector AU - Diefendorff, Keith AU - Dubey, Pradeep AU - Hochsprung, Ron AU - Scales, Hunter PY - 2000/03// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/40.848475 ER -