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Designing SOCs with Configured Cores
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Designing SOCs with Configured Cores

by Steve Leibson
August 2006
Intermediate to advanced
344 pages
9h 2m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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4.6. Improving Application Performance Using TIE

As demonstrated above, TIE extensions can improve the execution speed of an application running on an Xtensa processor by enabling the creation of instructions that each perform the work of multiple general-purpose instructions. Several different techniques can be used to combine multiple general-purpose operations into one instruction. Three common techniques available through TIE are:

  1. Fusion

  2. SIMD/vector transformation

  3. FLIX

To illustrate these three techniques, consider a simple example where profiling indicates that most of an application’s execution time is spent computing the average of two arrays in the following loop:

unsigned short *a, *b, *c; ... for (i=0; i<n; i++) c[i] = (a[i] + b[i]) >> ...
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