FLOVA: A four-issue VLIW geometry processor with SIMD instructions and lighting acceleration unit

S. Nam, Byoung-Woon Kim, Y. Im, Young-Su Kwon, Jun-Hee Lee, Young-Wook Cheon, Sung-Jae Byun, Dae-Hyun Lee, C. Kyung
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This paper describes a VLIW (very long instruction word) geometry processor called FLOVA (FLOating-Point VLIW Architecture) which was developed to accelerate the geometry stage of 3D graphics. FLOVA executes four instructions in one cycle and supports 136 instructions including 35 SIMD (single instruction multiple data) instructions to accelerate the geometry stage. Special features to accelerate transformation and lighting operations in 3D graphics geometry stage are described. FLOVA can calculate the power value of two floating-point numbers in only four clock cycles with a negligible loss of accuracy, compared to over 150 clock cycles in other processors.
FLOVA:一个带有SIMD指令和光照加速单元的四问题VLIW几何处理器
本文介绍了一种名为FLOVA (FLOating-Point VLIW Architecture)的VLIW (very long instruction word)几何处理器,它是为加速三维图形的几何阶段而开发的。FLOVA在一个周期内执行4条指令,支持136条指令,其中包括35条SIMD(单指令多数据)指令,以加速几何阶段。描述了在3D图形几何阶段加速转换和照明操作的特殊功能。FLOVA可以在四个时钟周期内计算两个浮点数的功率值,精度损失可以忽略不计,而其他处理器则需要超过150个时钟周期。
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