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AltiVec and is
AltiVec offered a rich system and can be programmed using increasingly sophisticated compilers from Motorola, IBM and GNU, therefore assembly language programming is rarely needed.
Apple was the dominant purchaser of PowerPC chips from IBM and Freescale Semiconductor and even though they abandoned the platform, further development of AltiVec is continued in several Power Architecture designs from Freescale and IBM.
AltiVec is a floating point and integer SIMD instruction set designed and owned by Apple, IBM and Freescale Semiconductor, formerly the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola, ( the AIM alliance ), and implemented on versions of the PowerPC including Motorola's G4, IBM's G5 and POWER6 processors, and P. A.
AltiVec is a trademark owned solely by Freescale, so the system is also referred to as Velocity Engine by Apple and VMX by IBM and P. A.
AltiVec is a standard part of the new Power ISA v. 2. 03 specification.
Unlike SSE2, AltiVec supports a special RGB " pixel " data type, but it does not operate on 64-bit double precision floats, and there is no way to move data directly between scalar and vector registers.
AltiVec is also unique in its support for a flexible vector permute instruction, in which each byte of a resulting vector value can be taken from any byte of either of two other vectors, parametrized by yet another vector.
Freescale is bringing an enhanced version of AltiVec to e6500 based QorIQ processors.
In C ++, the standard way of accessing AltiVec support is mutually exclusive with use of the Standard Template Library < code > vector <></ code > class template due to the treatment of " vector " as a reserved word when the compiler does not implement the context sensitive keyword version of vector.
In this respect VIS is more similar to the design of MMX than other SIMD architectures such as SSE / SSE2 / AltiVec.
Besides desktop computers the PowerPC G4 is popular in embedded environments, like routers, telecom switches, imaging, media processing, avionics and military applications, where one can take advantage of the AltiVec and its SMP capabilities.

AltiVec and .
and AltiVec.
This sparked the introduction of the much more powerful AltiVec system in the Motorola PowerPC's and IBM's POWER systems.
SIMD instructions can be found, to one degree or another, on most CPUs, including the IBM's AltiVec and SPE for PowerPC, HP's PA-RISC Multimedia Acceleration eXtensions ( MAX ), Intel's MMX and iwMMXt, SSE, SSE2, SSE3 SSSE3 and SSE4. x, AMD's 3DNow !, ARC's ARC Video subsystem, SPARC's VIS and VIS2, Sun's MAJC, ARM's NEON technology, MIPS ' MDMX ( MaDMaX ) and MIPS-3D.
Apple's APIs and development tools ( XCode ) were rewritten to use SSE2 and SSE3 instead of AltiVec.
Semi, although IBM has recently begun using AltiVec as well.
While AltiVec refers to an instruction set, the implementations in CPUs produced by IBM and Motorola are separate in terms of logic design.
To date, no IBM core has included an AltiVec logic design licensed from Motorola or vice-versa.
Both AltiVec and SSE feature 128-bit vector registers that can represent sixteen 8-bit signed or unsigned chars, eight 16-bit signed or unsigned shorts, four 32-bit ints or four 32-bit floating point variables.
However, AltiVec provides a much more complete set of " horizontal " operations that work across all the elements of a vector ; the allowable combinations of data type and operations are much more complete.
Thirty-two 128-bit vector registers are provided, compared to eight for SSE and SSE2 ( extended to 16 in x86-64 ), and most AltiVec instructions take three register operands compared to only two register / register or register / memory operands on IA-32.
Recent versions of the GNU Compiler Collection ( GCC ), IBM VisualAge compiler and other compilers provide intrinsics to access AltiVec instructions directly from C and C ++ programs.
AltiVec was developed between 1996 and 1998 by a collaborative project between Apple, IBM, and Motorola.
Apple was the primary customer for AltiVec until Apple switched to Intel-made, x86-based CPUs in 2006.

AltiVec and Power
The processor at the heart of the Power Mac G5 has a " superscalar, superpipelined " execution core that can handle up to 216 in-flight instructions, and uses a 128-bit, 162-instruction SIMD unit ( AltiVec ).
Intel's MMX, SSE, AVX and Power Architecture's AltiVec and ARM's NEON instruction sets support such vectorized loops.

AltiVec and ISA
The Cell Broadband Engine, used in ( amongst other things ) the PlayStation 3, also supports AltiVec in its PPU, with the SPU ISA being enhanced but architecturally similar.

AltiVec and 2
The new version included ( along other improvements ) the previously missing native TCP / IP stack, an updated Sputnik release, AltiVec support, alpha compositing 3D layers for the graphical user interface, new USB components ( including USB 2. 0 support ), new screenblankers, and Reggae, a new, modular, streaming multimedia framework.

is and standard
As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.
This, however, cannot be done by a community whose very experience of truth is confused and incoherent: it has no absolute standard, and consequently cannot distinguish the absolute from the contingent.
This condition will undoubtedly continue until such time as a state uniform system of evaluation is established, or through mutual agreement of the local assessing officials for a method of standard assessment practice to be adopted.
The present proceeding is concerned with the standard broadcast ( AM ) band, from 540 kc. to 1600 kc..
By this standard, it is determined that where two stations operating on the same frequency are involved, objectionable interference from station A exists at any point within the service area of station B where station A's signal is of an intensity one-twentieth or more of the strength of station B's signal at that point.
A second fundamental principle is that involved particularly in the present proceeding -- the difference between nighttime and daytime propagation conditions with respect to the standard broadcast frequencies.
Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.
Another growth factor is increased consumer demand for better quality and larger quantities of fabrics that go with a rising standard of living.
Any alteration of one of these factors is distortion, although we generally use that word only for effects so pronounced that they can be stated quantitatively on the basis of standard tests.
The symbol for subtraction is the standard minus sign.
Actually, the engine displacement formula is the standard formula for computing the volume of a cylinder of any type with an added factor that represents the number of cylinders in the engine.
The most intriguing aspect of the S & W Magnum chambered for the new Jet is that it can also fire standard
The action is a drop-block, handling all the standard
For example, a Browning trap version of the Superposed over/under, the Broadway ( from $350 up, depending on grade ), differs from standard models in that it is equipped with a full beavertail fore end, a cushion recoil pad and a barrel-wide ventilated rib for fast sighting.
Most of it is panelized and utilizes standard materials, and requires the use of only simple tools.
The proper correlation of the art with the academic can be achieved only if this standard is observed.
Although the standard deviation values on which spread of the lines is based are relatively larger for those centers which begin to ossify early ( Table 1 ), there are considerable differences in this value between centers having the closely timed Onsets.
The second situation is illustrated by the operator T on Af ( F any field ) represented in the standard basis by Af.
In the stock market, the normal trading package is a hundred shares, just as 5,000 bushels is the standard grain contract package.
To the extent that a tale is twice told, its final author must be suspect, although plagiarism in an oral tradition is less a misdemeanor than the standard modus dicendi.
Specimens are allowed to reach moisture equilibrium with a standard atmosphere of Af and Af and then laid out without tension on a flat, polished surface, care being taken that the fabric is free from wrinkles or creases.

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