Part 2 shows how the C2R C-to-RTL compiler was used to customize and validate the datapath. Programmable architectures, including micro-coded data-parallel accelerators, are the backbone processing ...

The MIPS SIMD architecture (MSA) module allows efficient parallel processing of vector operations. This functionality is of growing importance across a range of applications. For consumer electronics ...

First, architecture basics are detailed with information on the register sets, data types, and memory and instruction formats. Next, instruction set extensions are detailed, which include Intel® ...

Intel AVX-512 is the latest in a long history of x86 vector instruction sets. Vector instructions, commonly known as SIMD instructions, are special because they do more than one operation at a time.

Gather and scatter operations are used in many domains. However, to use these types of functions on an SIMD architecture creates some programming challenges. As SIMD systems are optimized to work with ...

If the ARM processor in its many incarnations is to take on the reigning Xeon champ in the datacenter and the born again Power processor that is also trying to knock Xeons from the throne, it is going ...