Parallel Media Processors for the Billion-Transistor Era

This paper describes the challenges presented by singlechip parallel media processors (PMPs). These machines integrate multiple parallel function units, instruction execution, and memory hierarchies on a single chip. The combination of programmability and high performance on data parallelism is necessary to meet the demands of nextgeneration multimedia applications. Many research issues must be solved to realize the full potential of programmable media processors. This paper provides both a survey of research trends and issues in architecture and compiler design for programmable media processors, and an exploration of the potential performance of media processors over the next decade.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: ICPP
• Authors: Jason Fritts, Zhao Wu, Wayne Wolf
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, ICPP 1999, Media Processors, Parallel Media Processors, Programmable Media Processors