Mod (2P-1) Shuffle Memory-Access Instructions for FFTs on Vector SIMD DSPs

Abstract

Binary Exchange Algorithm (BEA) always introduces excessive shuffle operations when mapping FFTs on vector SIMD DSPs. This can greatly restrict the overall performance. We propose a novel mod (2P-1) shuffle function and Mod-BEA algorithm (MBEA), which can halve the shuffle operation count and unify the shuffle mode. Such unified shuffle mode inspires us to propose a set of novel mod (2P-1) shuffle memory-access instructions, which can totally eliminate the shuffle operations. Experimental results show that the combination of MBEA and the proposed instructions can bring 17.2%-31.4% performance improvements at reasonable hardware cost, and compress the code size by about 30%.