TriMedia (media processor)

TriMedia is a Harvard architecture[citation needed] CPU that features many DSP and SIMD operations to efficiently process audio and video data streams.

High-level programmability of TriMedia relies on the large uniform register file and the orthogonal instruction set, in which RISC-like operations can be scheduled independently of each other in the VLIW issue slots.

TriMedia development has been supported by various research studies on hardware cache coherency, multithreading and diverse accelerators to build scalable shared memory multiprocessor systems.

For the next several years LIFE was further matured internally in Philips under guidance of Gerrit Slavenburg, which resulted in 1996 in the introduction of the first Trimedia product: the TM1000 PCI Media Processor (introduced as TM-1 [1]).

[citation needed] In 2005, the TM3270 was announced as a low-power H.264 capable incarnation of the TriMedia architecture (see external links to papers below), first released in the PNX4103 SoC.

silicon (worst case) allocate on write miss, hardware prefetching, super pipelined (high speed) 64/32 32/16