This paper explores the scalability of the Stream Processor architecture along the instruction-, data-, and thread-level parallelism dimensions. We develop detailed VLSI-cost and ...
The MISP Processor is a programmable media processor which supports multi-issuing, multi-threading and stream processing techniques. MISP executes applications that have been mapp...
Efficient use of the memory hierarchy is critical for achieving high performance in a multiprocessor systemon-chip. An external memory that is shared between processors is a bottl...
Arno Moonen, Marco Bekooij, Rene van den Berg, Jef...
The speedup over a microprocessor that can be achieved by implementing some programs on an FPGA has been extensively reported. This paper presents an analysis, both quantitative a...
Zhi Guo, Walid A. Najjar, Frank Vahid, Kees A. Vis...
General-purpose microprocessors augmented with SIMD execution units enhance multimedia applications by exploiting data level parallelism. However, supporting/overhead related inst...