Intel® AVX

The need for greater computing performance continues to grow across industry segments. To support rising demand and evolving usage models, we continue our history of innovation with the Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX).

Intel® AVX is a new 256 bit instruction set extension to SSE and is designed for applications that are Floating Point (FP) intensive. It was released early 2011 as part of the Sandy Bridge processor family and is present in platforms ranging from notebooks to servers. Intel AVX improves performance due to wider vectors, new extensible syntax, and rich functionality. This results in better management of data and general purpose applications like image, audio/video processing, scientific simulations, financial analytics and 3D modeling and analysis.

• » Intel® Architecture Instruction Set Extensions Programming Reference (PDF). This PDF document covers new instructions slated for future Intel processors. Details of Intel AVX instructions can be found in the Intel®64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer Manuals.

• » Intel® Software Development Emulator (SDE) (PDF)

SDE includes support for SSE4, AES and PCLMULQDQ and the Intel AVX Instructions.
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• » Intel® architecture code analyzer

The Intel® Architecture Code Analyzer helps you conduct quick analysis for Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions before processors with these instructions are actually available. Product Overview | Download

• » Intel® C++ compiler

The Intel® C++ Compiler is available for download from the Intel® Registration Center for all licensed customers. Evaluation versions of Intel® Software Development Products are also available for free download.

• » Intel Intrinsic Guide

An interactive reference tool that allows programmers to search, sort and reference all of Intel's SIMD instructions. The guide also provides descriptions for each instruction, data type support as well as the intrinsic mnemonics.

• Updated Intel Intrinsic Guide (Mac)
• Updated Intel Intrinsic Guide (Linux)
• Updated Intel Intrinsic Guide (Windows)

• » Introduction to AVX
• » Practical AVX Optimization
• » Cakewalk used AVX to optimize SONAR.
• » Kernel Template Library
• » Intel® Software Development Products Technical Presentations
• » 3D Vector Normalization using AVX
• » Using Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions to Implement an Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform
• » IIR Gaussian Blur Filter Implementation using Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions
• » Benefits of Intel® AVX For Small Matrices
• » Intel® AVX C/C++ Intrinsics Emulation
• » Intel® AVX Realization of IIR Filter for Complex Float Data
• » Intel® AVX Realization of Lanczos Interpolation in Intel IPP 2D Resize Transform
• » Optimize for Intel® AVX Using Intel® Math Kernel Library's Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) with DGEMM Routine
• » Carry-Less Multiplication and Its Usage for Computing The GCM Mode - Rev 2 New Update
• » Wiener Filtering Using Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions
• » Benefits of Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions For Quaternion Spherical Liner Interpolation (Slerp)
• » Intel® AVX Realization Of IIR Filter For Complex Float Data
• » Fast CRC Computation for Generic Polynomials Using PCLMULQDQ Instruction (PDF)
• » How To Optimize Your Software for the Upcoming Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (PDF)
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