• AltiVec is a single-precision floating point and integer SIMD instruction set designed and owned by Apple, IBM, and Freescale Semiconductor (formerly...
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    swap bytes and undo the exclusive-OR when accessing little-endian chips. AltiVec operations, despite being 128-bit, are treated as if they were 64-bit....
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    architecture in 1996. This sparked the introduction of the much more powerful AltiVec system in the Motorola PowerPC and IBM's POWER systems. Intel responded...
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  • applications designed to take advantage of the AltiVec unit. Some examples are Adobe Photoshop which utilises the AltiVec unit for faster rendering of effects and...
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    auxiliary processing units like digital signal processors (DSPs) and the AltiVec extension. Book II – Virtual Environment Architecture defines the storage...
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    double-precision floating-point units, two load/store units and two AltiVec units. One of the AltiVec units executes integer and floating-point instructions, and...
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    On the other hand, hand-tuned assembly language programs using MMX or AltiVec extensions and performing data prefetches (as a good video encoder might)...
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  • only intercept and emulate user-level code. It translates G3, G4, and AltiVec instructions, but not G5 instructions. Although most commercial software...
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  • Additionally, IBM has included an AltiVec (VMX) unit which is fully pipelined for single precision floating point (Altivec 1 does not support double precision...
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  • technologies like the Vector-Media Extensions known under the brand name AltiVec (also called VMX by IBM) and hardware virtualization. This new ISA was...
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  • instruction, multiple data (SIMD) instruction sets (Streaming SIMD Extensions, AltiVec etc.) where 128-bit vector registers are used to store several smaller...
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  • Machine Extensions, instructions on processors with x86 virtualization AltiVec, a floating point and integer SIMD instruction set called VMX by IBM vMX...
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  • Edition. Support is available through javax.smartcardio package of JDK. AltiVec includes POWER4 through POWER8 SIMD processing. POWER8 added in-core crypto...
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  • supports various periods from 2607 − 1 to 2216091 − 1. Intel SSE2 and PowerPC AltiVec are supported by SFMT. It is also used for games with the Cell BE in the...
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  • instructions, AMD's 3DNow! extensions, ARM NEON, Sparc's VIS extension, PowerPC's AltiVec and MIPS' MSA. In 2000, IBM, Toshiba and Sony collaborated to create the...
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    analysis package from UVA FASTA Downloads. This implementation includes Altivec accelerated code for PowerPC G4 and G5 processors that speeds up comparisons...
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  • constructs. Some application programming interfaces (API), for example, AltiVec and OpenMP, use intrinsic functions to declare, respectively, vectorizable...
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  • with the 32-bit prefix) Condition code, Branch-Counter auto-decrement Bi AltiVec, APU, VSX, Cell, Floating-point, Matrix Multiply Assist Yes Yes RISC-V...
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  • micro-architecture family up to 1.5 GHz and 256 kB on-chip L2 cache and improved Altivec 7447/7457 micro-architecture family up to 1.83 GHz with 512 kB on-chip...
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    Xenon X704 Related links OpenPOWER Foundation AIM alliance RISC Blue Gene Power.org PAPR PReP CHRP AltiVec Cancelled in gray, historic in italic v t e...
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    Xenon X704 Related links OpenPOWER Foundation AIM alliance RISC Blue Gene Power.org PAPR PReP CHRP AltiVec Cancelled in gray, historic in italic v t e...
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    in-flight instructions, and uses a 128-bit, 162-instruction SIMD unit (AltiVec). All modern 32-bit x86 processors since the Pentium Pro have the Physical...
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  • die L3 cache, a 400Mhz DDR front side bus and the same implementation of AltiVec used in the PowerPC 970. It was expected to clock as high as 1.8 GHz (starting...
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    envelope target, capping at 30 W. These are using the e6500 core with AltiVec and are expected to be shipping in 2013. QorIQ LS-1 and LS-2 families are...
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  • they exceed the minimum 867 MHz requirement. This is due to the lack of AltiVec support in the G3 line of processors. Leopard can be "hacked" (see below)...
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    include Intel's Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) and the PowerPC-related AltiVec (also known as VMX). Many modern architectures (including embedded ones)...
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    Xenon X704 Related links OpenPOWER Foundation AIM alliance RISC Blue Gene Power.org PAPR PReP CHRP AltiVec Cancelled in gray, historic in italic v t e...
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  • Xenon X704 Related links OpenPOWER Foundation AIM alliance RISC Blue Gene Power.org PAPR PReP CHRP AltiVec Cancelled in gray, historic in italic v t e...
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  • similar to the design of MMX than other SIMD architectures such as SSE/SSE2/AltiVec. VIS includes a number of operations primarily for graphics support, so...
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    Xenon X704 Related links OpenPOWER Foundation AIM alliance RISC Blue Gene Power.org PAPR PReP CHRP AltiVec Cancelled in gray, historic in italic v t e...
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