{"title":"Intra-vector SIMD instructions for core specialization","authors":"C. Meenderinck, B. Juurlink","doi":"10.1109/ICCD.2009.5413112","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Current research is mainly focussing on exploiting TLP to increase performance. Another avenue, however, for achieving performance scalability is specialization. In this paper we propose application specific intra-vector instructions for two dimensional signal processing kernels. In such kernels usually significant data rearrangement overhead is required in order to use the SIMD capabilities. When using the intra-vector instructions the overhead can be avoided. We have implemented intra-vector instructions in the Cell SPU core and measured speedups of up to 2.06, with an average of 1.45.","PeriodicalId":256908,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design","volume":"145 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2009-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCD.2009.5413112","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Current research is mainly focussing on exploiting TLP to increase performance. Another avenue, however, for achieving performance scalability is specialization. In this paper we propose application specific intra-vector instructions for two dimensional signal processing kernels. In such kernels usually significant data rearrangement overhead is required in order to use the SIMD capabilities. When using the intra-vector instructions the overhead can be avoided. We have implemented intra-vector instructions in the Cell SPU core and measured speedups of up to 2.06, with an average of 1.45.