TitleMultimedia acceleration with PA-RISC microprocessors
PublisherUniversity Video Communications
Copyright HolderComputer History Museum
DescriptionFrom University Video Communications' catslog:
"The need for digital multimedia information processing increases with the use of computers for enhancing communications, in addition to computations. Lee shows how today's microprocessors may be leveraged, with very minor changes, to run multimedia programs significantly faster. This includes definitions and uses of subword parallelism, multiplication and division primitives, and saturation arithmetic. Lee discusses, as a concrete example, the initial minimalistic set of general-purpose multimedia extensions introduced in PA-RISC microprocessors, enabling for the first time, high-fidelity MPEG video and audio decoding achieved by software at real-time rates of 30 frames per second on entry-level workstations."