Media-Friendly Microprocessor Architectures and Tools

Video, audio, and graphics are increasingly important elements of digital communication. The chip industry is designing microprocessors to better handle new software functions that support these elements. Software engineers require better tools to minimize development time and maintain platform compatibility for media applications. Revolutionary system architectures allow clustered desktop processors to become fault-tolerant high-speed server and rendering systems. Recent improvements in these three areas can help engineers build COTS (Commercial Off-the Shelf) open platform media systems that perform and scale better than ever before.

Print ISSN

0036-1682

Published

2002-06

Content type

Information

DOI

10.5594/J16357