vector - Department of Computer Science
vector - Department of Computer Science
vector - Department of Computer Science
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Vector Instruction Set Advantages<br />
• Compact<br />
– one short instruction encodes N operations => N*FlOp BandWidth<br />
• Expressive, tells hardware that these N operations:<br />
– are independent<br />
– use the same functional unit<br />
– access disjoint registers<br />
– access registers in the same pattern as previous instructions<br />
– access a contiguous block <strong>of</strong> memory (unit-stride load/store) OR<br />
• Scalable<br />
access memory in a known pattern (strided load/store)<br />
– can run same object code on more parallel pipelines or lanes<br />
3/22-24/11 CSE502-S11, Lec 14+15-Vector 6