NDLI: Recent changes and future trends in general purpose processor architectures to support image and video applications

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Debes, E.
Copyright Year	2003
Description	Author affiliation: Microprocessor Res., Intel Labs, Santa Clara, CA, USA (Debes, E.)
Abstract	Image and video applications have been driving general- purpose processors (GPPs) and systems for more than a decade and will continue influencing the design of next generation architectures. In this paper we will first summarize the main characteristics of image and video applications compared to other workloads running on GPPs. Then we will give an overview of the recent changes and future trends in general purpose processor architectures to better handle image and video applications. First we will show that new SlMD (single instruction multiple data) features allow better exploitation of data-level parallelism and that media instructions have been added for some very specific algorithms. Another important aspect for image and video applications running on GPPs is the increasing memory latency compared to the processing time. In this context, the hardware prefetcher is slowly replacing software-prefetching instructions. In addition we will describe how additional support for multithreading like the newly introduced Intel Hyperthreading Technology or future multicore processors can benefit image and video applications. Finally we will explain how recently introduced frequency voltage scaling features can help to reduce power consumption for media applications due to their regular execution and fixed dead-line characteristics.
Sponsorship	IEEE Signal Process. Soc
File Size	315780
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780377508
ISSN	15224880
DOI	10.1109/ICIP.2003.1247187
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2003-09-14
Publisher Place	Spain
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Streaming media Application software Parallel processing Yarn Image coding Multithreading Energy consumption Personal digital assistants Microprocessors Educational institutions
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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