Multi-media extensions in super-pipelined micro-architectures. A new case for SIMD processing?

Computer Architectures for Machine Perception, Proceedings (CAMP)

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 249-258

  Ferretti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERAL PURPOSE PROCESSORS (GPP); SINGLE INSTRUCTION MULTIPLE DATA (SIMD) SYSTEMS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033697468     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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