The volume and complexity of data processed by today's personal computers are increasing
exponentially, placing incredible demands on the microprocessors. In the meantime …

This paper aims to provide a quantitative understanding of the performance of image and
video processing applications on general-purpose processors, without and with media ISA …

Multimedia SIMD extensions such as MMX and AltiVec speed up media processing;
however, our characterization shows that the attributes of current general-purpose …

The anticipated explosive growth of pervasive and mobile computing devices that are
typically constrained by energy has brought hardware and software techniques for energy …

Several data replication strategies have been proposed to provide high data availability for
database applications. However, the trade-offs among the different strategies for various …

We present the TM3270 media-processor, the latest TriMedia VLIW processor, tuned to
address the performance demands of standard definition video processing, combined with …

AltiVec technology is Motorola's high-per $ ormance vector parallel processing extension to
the PowerPC”'RISC microprocessor. It is designed to improve the performance of algorithms …

Many microprocessor instruction sets include instructions for accelerating multimedia
applications such as DVD playback, speech recognition, and 3D graphics. Despite general …

Due to low power requirements of many embedded/portable devices such as mobile phones
and laptop computers and dramatic increases in clock frequencies of general-purpose …

Recently introduced" SIMD on registers" extensions to commodity microprocessors
instruction sets promise (according to the makers) high potential speed-ups for multimedia …