Asynchronous memory access unit for general purpose processors

General-Purpose Computation without General-Purpose Processors

A Memory Encryption Engine Suitable for General Purpose Processors

Cryptographic protection of memory is an essential ingredient for any technology that allows a closed computing system to run software in a trustworthy manner and handle secrets, while its external memory is susceptible to eavesdropping and tampering. An example for such a technology is Intel’s emerging Software Guard Extensions technology (Intel SGX) that appears in the latest processor genera...

Multimedia Extensions for General-purpose Processors

This paper gives an overview of the multimedia instructions that have been added to the instruction set architectures of general-purpose microprocessors to accelerate media processing. Examples are MAX, MMX and VIS, the multimedia extensions for PA-RISC, ix86, and SPARC processor architectures. We describe subword parallelism, a low overhead form of SIMD parallelism, and the classes of instruct...

Virtual-Threading: Advanced General Purpose Processors Architecture

The paper describes the new computers architecture, the main features of which has been claimed in the Russian Federation patent 2312388 and in the US patent application 11/991331. This architecture is intended to effective support of the General Purpose Parallel Computing (GPPC), the essence of which is extremely frequent switching of threads between states of activity and states of viewed in ...

Stream Processing in General-Purpose Processors

To date stream processing has been applied to a variety of special purpose hardware architectures including stream processors, DSP, and graphics engines. We believe that the stream processing programming paradigm will also be a win for general-purpose processors, for executing both applications that have been identified previously for streaming such as media processing, as well as for wider cla...