A load-forwarding mechanism for the vector architecture in multimedia applications

Ye Gao, Ryusuke Egawa, Hiroyuki Takizawa, Hiroaki Kobayashi

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Abstract

Nowadays, multimedia applications (MMAs) form an important workload for general purpose processors. Although the vector architecture is considered the most potential candidate for media processing, the traditional vector architecture has inefficiencies to execute MMAs. This paper proposes a media-oriented vector architecture, which improves the traditional one with a load-forwarding mechanism. The load-forwarding mechanism overcomes the inefficiency on utilization of the memory bandwidth. As a result, the proposed architecture achieves a higher performance with lower hardware cost than the traditional one. This paper evaluates the proposed architecture with architectural design parameters and finds out the most efficient size for the vector architecture when performing MMAs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 13th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design
Subtitle of host publicationArchitectures, Methods and Tools, DSD 2010
Pages412-415
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010 Dec 13
Event13th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools, DSD 2010 - Lille, France
Duration: 2010 Sep 1 → 2010 Sep 3

Publication series

NameProceedings - 13th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools, DSD 2010

Other

Other13th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools, DSD 2010
CountryFrance
CityLille
Period10/9/1 → 10/9/3

Keywords

  • Data level parallelism
  • Media-oriented extensions
  • Multimedia applications
  • Vector architecture

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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    Gao, Y., Egawa, R., Takizawa, H., & Kobayashi, H. (2010). A load-forwarding mechanism for the vector architecture in multimedia applications. In Proceedings - 13th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools, DSD 2010 (pp. 412-415). [5615574] (Proceedings - 13th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design: Architectures, Methods and Tools, DSD 2010). https://doi.org/10.1109/DSD.2010.93