• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.29 no.10
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• pp.573-581
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a mediaprocessor of dual-cache architecture which is composed of the multimedia data cache and the general-purpose data cache to prevent performance degradation caused by memory delay. In the proposed processor architecture, multimedia data that are written in subword instructions are loaded in the multimedia data cache and the remaining data are loaded in the general-purpose data cache. Also, Ive use multi-block prefetching scheme that fetches two consecutive data blocks into a cache at a time to exploit the locality of multimedia data. Experimental results on MPEG and JPEG benchmark programs show that the proposed processor architecture results in better performance than the processor equipped with single data cache.