Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP)

by Intel

Overview

Intel® Performance Libraries offer pre-built library functions optimized for Intel processors, enabling developers to focus on building value-add functionality.

Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) is a cross-platform software library that allows users to write optimized applications that maximize performance on Intel processors. Intel IPP includes functionality for signal and image processing, cryptography, text strings and vector manipulation, matrix math, as well as more sophisticated primitives for construction of audio, video and speech codecs.

Features and Benefits

• Programming interface increases software performance on Intel?s latest microprocessors, providing time-to-market advantages and reduced development costs. Developers access advanced processor features without having to write processor-specific code
• Optimized for Intel® Itanium®2, Intel® Xeon?, and Intel® Pentium® processors, and Intel® Personal Internet Client Architecture (Intel® PCA) processors based on Intel XScale® technology. With a common application programming interface (API) across the range of architectures, multimedia application developers achieve compatibility
• Threaded application support, implemented as a thread-safe library for Pentium and Itanium processor-based environments, means applications can be threaded with the assurance that IPP functions are safe for use in a threaded environment
• Encoder-decoder samples accelerate development of applications, components, and codecs. MPEG, H.263, Imaging, MP3, and G.723 are just a few of the areas with aids to build applications faster, making the most of Intel IPP functionality
• Trial version is available
  

What?s New in the Integrated Performance Primitives 4.0

Intel IPP brings together support for Intel® Pentium®, Intel® Itanium®, Intel® Xeon?, and Intel® Personal Internet Client Architecture (Intel® PCA) processors into a single package. With a common API across the range of architectures, developers receive platform compatibility, reduced development costs, and ease of application porting. Unique features of each architecture are supported. Intel PCA support represents a subset of the functions for Pentium and Itanium processors.

For Pentium, Itanium, and Intel Xeon processors, Intel IPP 4.0 introduces two new function domains for cryptography and text string support as well as function expansion for audio, video, speech coding, and speech recognition ? plus improved small footprint support. Intel IPP is available for Windows and Linux operating systems (32- and 64-bit support). For Intel PCA processors, Intel IPP introduces support for Intel® Wireless MMX? technology.

An extensive variety of encoder-decoder samples has been implemented using Intel IPP functions to help demonstrate the use of Intel IPP and accelerate development of your application, components, and codecs. This sample code is provided under the terms and conditions outlined in the license agreement found with the main Intel IPP 4.0 beta installation package.

Creates Highly Optimized Applications Running on Intel Processors

Intel IPP is a cross-platform software library that provides a programming interface allowing users to write highly optimized applications to maximize performance on Intel processors, while providing time-to-market advantages. Users can access advanced processor features without writing processor-specific code.

Covers a Range of Intel Architectures with One Application Program Interface

Intel IPP is optimized for Intel Itanium 2, Pentium, and Intel Xeon processors, and Intel Personal Internet Client Architecture (Intel PCA) processors based on Intel XScale technology. With a single application programming interface (API) across the range of architectures, multimedia application developers achieve compatibility and reduce development costs.

Intel® Premier Support

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