Parallel Media Processors for the Billion-Transistor Era

  • Authors:
  • Jason Fritts;Zhao Wu;Wayne Wolf

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICPP '99 Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Parallel Processing
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

This paper describes the challenges presented by single-chip parallel media processors (PMPs). These machines integrate multiple parallel function units, instruction execution, and memory hierarchies on a single chip. The combination of programmability and high performance on data parallelism is necessary to meet the demands of next-generation multimedia applications. Many research issues must be solved to realize the full potential of programmable media processors. This paper provides both a survey of research trends and issues in architecture and compiler design for programmable media processors, and an exploration of the potential performance of media processors over the next decade.