arm neon - SIMD ISAs | Neon – Arm Developer

出处：SIMD ISAs | Neon – Arm Developer

Arm Neon technology is an advanced Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) architecture extension for the Arm Cortex-A and Cortex-R series processors.

Neon technology is a packed SIMD architecture. Neon registers are considered as vectors of elements of the same data type, with Neon instructions operating on multiple elements simultaneously. Multiple data types are supported by the technology, including floating-point and integer operations.

Neon technology is intended to improve the multimedia user experience by accelerating audio and video encoding and decoding, user interface, 2D/3D graphics, and gaming. Neon can also accelerate signal processing algorithms and functions to speed up applications such as audio and video processing, voice and facial recognition, computer vision, and deep learning.

As a programmer, there are several ways you can use Neon technology:

• Neon intrinsics
• Neon-enabled libraries
• Auto-vectorization by your compiler
• Hand-coded Neon assembler