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VIS Speeds New Media Processing

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J. Michael O'Connor,

Venkatesh Narayanan,

Liang HeAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Micro, Volume 16, Issue 4

Pages 10 - 20

https://doi.org/10.1109/40.526921

Published: 01 August 1996 Publication History

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.

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