VIS Speeds New Media Processing

  • Authors:
  • Marc Tremblay;J. Michael O'Connor;Venkatesh Narayanan;Liang He

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Micro
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

The Visual Instruction Set (VIS), first introduced with the UltraSPARC-I microprocessor, is described from an Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) standpoint. Besides covering the functionality of each instruction individually, we look at a few widely used algorithms that can be sped up significantly (2-7X) by using VIS. The software environment surrounding VIS is also described.