CAMBRIDGE, England — Processor licensor ARM Holdings plc has launched a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) extension to its architecture called Neon. Neon addresses signal and media processing ...
Key to efficient hardware emulation is an efficient mapping to the underlying CPU’s opcodes. Here one is free to target ...
A 32bit V850 CPU core recently unveiled by Renesas Electronics is claimed to offer both real-time control and signal processing performance on a par with digital signal processors (DSPs). Its aim is ...
Axeon, the Aberdeen-based parallel processor developer, has released details of itsVindAX processor. Available in both silicon and intellectual property form, VindAX (derived from theLatin for ...
LONDON — ARC International plc has created a set of 104 128-bit wide instructions that can be applied to a multimedia hardware subsystem as an optional extra to ARC700 configurable processors. The ...
SIMD instructions and an SIMD processor with dedicated vector registers (64-bit) have been added to boost signal processing performance. Other improvements on the V850E2M core include a dedicated ...
Imagination Technologies has unveiled MIPS P5600 core supporting 128-bit SIMD and hardware virtualization. Imagination claims this processor core takes 30% smaller area on silicon compared to ...
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 ...
As mentioned, SIMD processors have limited efficiency for the final image-processing steps that are either mainly serialized or require floating-point arithmetic. Additionally, when compared with ...