MMX TECHNOLOGYIntroductionHighlightsMOTIVATIONIMPLEMENTATIONGoalMMX TECHNOLOGYSTUDY AND IMPLEMENTATIONIntroduction•MMX : Multi-Media-eXtension•Designed to accelerate multimedia and communication applications.•Exploits the parallelism inherent in many multimedia and communications algorithms.Highlights •Single Instruction Multiple Data technique•57 new instructions •Eight 64-bit wide MMX technology registers •Four new data typesMOTIVATION•Study the Pentium Processor and its pipeline structure.•Use the MMX instructions.•Implement matrix operations using these instructions.•Analyze instructions for latency and speedup.IMPLEMENTATION•Matrix operations.•Matrix multiply, transform.•Solution to linear system of equations.Goal•To find parts of code that can efficiently use MMX instructions.•Find the data types supported and the speedup achieved.•Use data cache efficiently.•Perform loop unrolling and code optimization
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