System and method for fine-grain instruction parallelism for increased efficiency of processing compressed multimedia data

摘要

A method and system of processing compressed multimedia data using fine-grain instruction parallelism is provided. The method of processing multimedia data includes transferring an instruction from each of a plurality of sequencers to associated processing elements within an array of processing elements. The instructions can be processed by the array of processing elements using fine-grain instruction parallelism. A selection mechanism using selection instructions can select the associated processing elements. The plurality of sequencers comprise fine-grain instructions for decoding the compressed multimedia data. A system for multimedia data processing includes a data parallel system which can include an array of processing elements. A plurality of sequencers are coupled to the array of processing elements. A direct memory access component is coupled to the array of processing elements. A diagonal mapping scheme can be used in transferring instructions and data to the processing elements.