DSP on General Purpose Processors
Multimedia applications on PCs
- Video, audio, graphics and animation
- Repetitive parallel sequences of instructions
Native signal processing examples
- Sun Visual Instruction Set (UltraSPARC 1/2)
- Intel MMX (Pentium I/II/III)
- Intel Concurrent SIMD-FP (Pentium III)
Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)
- One instruction acts on multiple data in parallel
- Well-suited for graphics