VIS speeds new media processing

UltraSparc's Visual Instruction Set, described here in detail, accelerates some widely used media-processing algorithms by as much as seven times. Today's new media, increasingly sophisticated 3D graphics environments, videoconferencing, MPEG video playback, 3D visualization, image process...

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Veröffentlicht in:	IEEE MICRO 1996-08, Vol.16 (4), p.10-20
Hauptverfasser:	Tremblay, M., O'Connor, J.M., Narayanan, V., Liang He
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Acceleration Algorithms Boundary conditions Computer architecture Graphics Image processing Instruction sets Media Partitioning algorithms Reduced instruction set computing Teleconferencing Video on demand Visualization
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Zusammenfassung:	UltraSparc's Visual Instruction Set, described here in detail, accelerates some widely used media-processing algorithms by as much as seven times. Today's new media, increasingly sophisticated 3D graphics environments, videoconferencing, MPEG video playback, 3D visualization, image processing, and so on, demand enhancements to conventional RISC instruction sets, which were not originally designed to handle such applications. The Visual Instruction Set (VIS) is a comprehensive set of RISC-style instructions targeted at accelerating this new media processing.
ISSN:	0272-1732 1937-4143
DOI:	10.1109/40.526921