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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 ...

The TMS320C82 is a powerful DSP optimized for multimedia processing in the cost-sensitive consumer and PC markets. This article provides an overview of the C82 architecture and briefly describes a C82 implementation of the ITU H.324 standard for ...

A broadband mediaprocessor extends and streamlines a general-purpose computer system to attain the goal of communicating and processing digital video, audio, data and RF signals at broadband rates using compiled, downloadable, software rather than ...

The MMX TM Technology extension to the Intel Architecture is designed to accelerate multimedia and communications software running on Intel Architecture processors. The technology introduces new data types and instructions that implement a SIMD ...

Subword Parallelism is a technique that enables the full use of word-oriented datapaths when dealing with lower-precision data. It is a form of low-cost, small-scale SIMD parallelism. This paper discusses the needs of subword parallelism, and gives an ...

Analog design is quite more difficult than digital design. As a consequence, most of the effort in analog design still relies on designer's experience. New ideas and methodologies are required to make a progress towards automating the analog design. ...

The capability of the MIPS measure as an indicator of computer performance is highly questionable and is often rejected by most researchers. On the other hand, the MFLOPS measure is commonly used, mainly in mainframes and workstations for scientific and ...

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IEEE-USA, the IEEE's US Activities Board, has proposed to Congress that it enact a new form of “anti-knockoff” intellectual property protection for “fast-moving technology”. The new form of intellectual property, which IEEE-USA ...

The productivity paradox is not responsible for all the problems with computers. When all the evidence is in, there probably is almost no productivity paradox at all. The author discusses the arguments against the productivity paradox