Ramya
MMX TECHNOLOGY : STUDY and IMPLEMENTATION


ABSTRACT


I am interested in the area of computer architecture.
I have been introduced to the fundamentals of computer 
architecture and I wanted to learn how real computer
systems worked.


For the project I studied the pipeline structure in 
INTEL PENTIUM processors and used MMX instructions to
write assembly level programs.


I chose matrix operations (multiply, transform etc)because 
they are used quite often in multimedia signal processing
algorithms. Also, with simple data types as matrix elements,
this would allow me to understand and explain the advantages
of MMX instructions.I studied the ways to optimize code, align
data and use data cache efficiently. 

In my report I hope to explain my understanding through examples.