VIS-based native video processing on UltraSPARC
Z.-J. Mou, Daniel S. Rice, Wei Ding · 2002
The UltraSPARC CPU powers Sun Microsystems' latest workstations. It is the first major CPU to implement a comprehensive set of instructions aimed at high performance digital image and video processing-the Visual Instruction Set, or VIS. This is equivalent to the integration of a parallel DSP core into the CPU, rather than a coprocessor approach. We describe VIS and its application to the implementation of video processing algorithms in an H.261 codec.