1. STUDY AND IMPLEMENTATION
MMX TECHNOLOGY
STUDY AND IMPLEMENTATION

2. Introduction MMX : Multi-Media-eXtension
Designed to accelerate multimedia and communication applications.
Exploits the parallelism inherent in many multimedia and communications algorithms.

3. Highlights Single Instruction Multiple Data technique
57 new instructions
Eight 64-bit wide MMX technology registers
Four new data types

4. MOTIVATION Study the Pentium Processor and its pipeline structure.
Use the MMX instructions.
Implement matrix operations using these instructions.
Analyze instructions for latency and speedup.

5. IMPLEMENTATION Matrix operations. Matrix multiply, transform.
Solution to linear system of equations.

6. 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 techniques.