A multi-streaming SIMD architecture for multimedia applications
Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Computing frontiers
Design of a novel SIMD architecture by fusing operations and registers
Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Supercomputing
A multi-streaming SIMD multimedia computing engine
Microprocessors & Microsystems
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In general, the main purpose for using PIM modules is to dramatically increase the Data-Level Parallelism (DLP) and avoid the limited issue rate of current systems (even when they include SIMD extensions) caused by the limited data bandwidth and functional units. Our approach is to divide the PIM module into hundreds of smaller pieces so that each of these smaller PIMs can execute motion estimation for a group of macro blocks in a parallel fashion. We also design the logic in each PIM to execute in a highly pipelined fashion so that even more parallelism can be exploited. The main contribution of this paper is the presentation of architectural techniques that can be used in the PIM module to overcome the addressing and data sharing overhead when these smaller PIMs are used. Our architectural techniques have been applied to motion estimation. Indeed, it has been reported that Motion estimation takes the majority of the execution time of MPEG encoding and it has been researched by many because of its importance in MPEG encoding. With our paradigm and techniques, the host processor can be relieved from the most computationally demanding and data-intensive portions of the workload which should therefore yield a significant performance gain.