Memory bandwidth: The true bottleneck of SIMD multimedia performance on a superscalar processor

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2150, Issue , 2001, Pages 439-447

  Sebot, Julien ^a   Drach Temam, Nathalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC;

3D APPLICATION; FLOATING POINTS; GENERAL-PURPOSE MICROPROCESSORS; MEMORY BANDWIDTHS; MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE; PREFETCHES; SIMD EXTENSIONS; SUPERSCALAR PROCESSOR;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84916202835     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44681-8_63     Document Type: Conference Paper

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