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APPT
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Performance Improvement of Multimedia Kernels by Alleviating Overhead Instructions on SIMD Devices
SIMD extension is one of the most common and effective technique to exploit data-level parallelism in today’s processor designs. However, the performance of SIMD architectures i...
Asadollah Shahbahrami, Ben H. H. Juurlink
DSD
2009
IEEE
148views Hardware» more  DSD 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
SIMD Architectural Enhancements to Improve the Performance of the 2D Discrete Wavelet Transform
—The 2D Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is a time-consuming kernel in many multimedia applications such as JPEG2000 and MPEG-4. The 2D DWT consists of horizontal filtering alon...
Asadollah Shahbahrami, Ben H. H. Juurlink
ASAP
2009
IEEE
143views Hardware» more  ASAP 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
Scalar Processing Overhead on SIMD-Only Architectures
—The Cell processor consists of a general-purpose core and eight cores with a complete SIMD instruction set. Although originally designed for multimedia and gaming, it is current...
Arnaldo Azevedo Filho, Ben H. H. Juurlink
CASES
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Limitations of special-purpose instructions for similarity measurements in media SIMD extensions
Microprocessor vendors have provided special-purpose instructions such as psadbw and pdist to accelerate the sumof-absolute differences (SAD) similarity measurement. The usefulne...
Asadollah Shahbahrami, Ben H. H. Juurlink, Stamati...
ISM
2006
IEEE
130views Multimedia» more  ISM 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Accelerating Color Space Conversion Using Extended Subwords and the Matrix Register File
Color space conversion is an important kernel in multimedia codecs such as JPEG and MPEG. When implemented using SIMD instructions, however, the performance improvement is often l...
Asadollah Shahbahrami, Ben H. H. Juurlink, Stamati...