MVSP: multithreaded VLIW stream processor

Somayeh Sardashti; Hamid Reza Ghasemi; Omid Fatemi

doi:10.1117/12.642771

10 February 2006 MVSP: multithreaded VLIW stream processor

Somayeh Sardashti, Hamid Reza Ghasemi, Omid Fatemi

Proceedings Volume 6074, Multimedia on Mobile Devices II; 60740C (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.642771
Event: Electronic Imaging 2006, 2006, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Stream processing is a new trend in computer architecture design which fills the gap between inflexible special-purpose media architectures and programmable architectures with low computational ability for media processing. Stream processors are designed for computationally intensive media applications characterized by high data parallelism and producer-consumer locality with little global data reuse. In this paper, we propose a new stream processor, named MVSP¹. This processor is a programmable stream processor based on Imagine [1]. MVSP exploits TLP², DLP³, SP⁴ and ILP⁵ parallelisms inherent in media applications. Full simulator of MVSP has been implemented and several media workloads composed of EEMBC [2] benchmarks have been applied. The simulation results show the performance and functional unit utilization improvements of more than two times in comparison with Imagine processor.

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Somayeh Sardashti, Hamid Reza Ghasemi, and Omid Fatemi "MVSP: multithreaded VLIW stream processor", Proc. SPIE 6074, Multimedia on Mobile Devices II, 60740C (10 February 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.642771

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