Sub-word parallelism in digital signal processing
Fridman, J.
Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE
Volume 17, Issue 2, Mar 2000 Page(s):27 - 35
Digital Object Identifier   10.1109/79.826409
Summary:We deal with parallelism at the data level. We describe an implementation of the architectural technique called sub-word parallelism (SWP), which increases parallelism at the data-element-level by means of partitioning a processor's data path. The specific implementation we focus on is based on the TigerSHARC DSP architecture, developed at Analog Devices, Inc. As a result of SWP, the same data path and computation units perform more than one computation on an N-element composite word. This composite word consists of more than one adjacent sub-words. SWP is quite common and exists in production versions of most major general-purpose microprocessors. We also present an implementation of an FIR filter in the TigerSHARC using data-level SWP as an example

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