Multimedia extensions for a 550-MHz RISC microprocessor

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1618-1624

  Carlson, David A ^a,b,c   Castelino, Ruben W ^a,d,e   Mueller, Robert O ^a,e,f,g,h  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Digital Equipment   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^e Digital Semiconductor   (United States)

^f RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g Memory Management Unit ^*  (United States)

^h Memory Management Unit

Author keywords

Adders; Alpha; CMOS digital integrated circuits; DVD; H.263; Microprocessors; MPEG; Multimedia computing

Indexed keywords

ADDERS; ALGORITHMS; AUDIO EQUIPMENT; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; REDUCED INSTRUCTION SET COMPUTING; TELECONFERENCING; VIDEODISKS;

MOTION VIDEO INSTRUCTIONS; MPEG; MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING;

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

EID: 0031274111     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.641681     Document Type: Article

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