Intel/spl reg/ wireless MMXTM technology: a 64-bit SIMD architecture for mobile multimedia
Nigel C. Paver, B.C. Aldrich, Moinul H. Khan · 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2003. Proceedings. (ICASSP '03). · 2003
The growing demand for multimedia rich applications in the wireless mobile domain challenges the capabilities of current wireless handheld devices. Optimizing instruction set architecture is a logical approach towards attaining higher performance in multimedia applications. Intel/spl reg/ wireless MMXTM technology is a 64-bit single instruction multiple data, (SIMD), coprocessor for the Intel/spl reg/ XScale/spl trade/ microarchitecture. It accelerates multimedia applications in handheld and wireless devices by taking advantage of the inherent parallelism and data types of targeted applications. This paper provides an overview of the wireless MMX architecture, its instruction set, pipeline organization, and functional units. Initial benchmark results measured on silicon are also presented.