Design and characterization of the Berkeley multimedia workload

Multimedia Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 315-327

  Slingerland, Nathan T ^a   Smith, Alan Jay ^b  

^a APPLE INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MULTIMEDIA WORKLOADS;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036990809     PISSN: 09424962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005300200052     Document Type: Article

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