The MIPS SIMD architecture (MSA) module allows efficient parallel processing of vector operations. This functionality is of growing importance across a range of applications. For consumer electronics ...

Developed to eliminate the issues faced when using a pure SIMD architecture, modern mixed-mode solutions provide a robust platform for vision-processing applications. These devices can be used for ...

Part 2 shows how the C2R C-to-RTL compiler was used to customize and validate the datapath. Programmable architectures, including micro-coded data-parallel accelerators, are the backbone processing ...

The Cell processor consists of a general-purpose POWERPC processor core connected to eight special-purpose DSP cores. These DSP cores, which IBM calls "synergistic processing elements" (SPE), but I'm ...

MIPS Technologies, Inc. announced a major release of the MIPS architecture, encompassing the MIPS32, MIPS64 and microMIPS instruction set architectures. Based on work done over more than two years, ...

Is low-level programming a sin or a virtue? It depends. When programming for using vector processing on a modern processor, ideally I’d write some code in my favorite language and it would run as fast ...

Performance and cost are intimately linked in DSP applications for cell phones, music players, and other consumer systems. The DSP must offer enough performance for the current requirement at the ...

Programmable architectures, including micro-coded data-parallel accelerators, are the backbone processing engines in high performance ASICs. Traditionally, such architectures have been implemented at ...