NEON

NEON Enhancing User Experience

NEON enhances many multimedia user experiences:

• Watch any video in any format
• Edit and enhance captured videos - video stabilization
• Anti-aliased rendering and compositing
• Game processing
• Process multi-megapixel photos quickly
• Voice recognition
• Powerful multichannel hi-fi audio processing

NEON Features and Benefits

NEON supports the widest range of multimedia codecs used for internet applications:

• Many soft codec standards: MPEG-4, H.264, On2 VP6/7/8, Real, AVS.....
• Ideal solution for normal size "internet streaming" decode of various formats
• Not just for codecs - also applicable to 2D and 3D graphics and other vector processing
• Off the shelf tools, OS support, and ecosystem support

Fewer cycles needed:

• NEON will give 60-150% performance boost on complex video codecs
• Individual simple DSP algorithms can show larger performance boost (4x-8x)
• Processor can sleep sooner, resulting in overall dynamic power saving 

NEON technology features a number of elements to increase performance and simplify software development, such as: 

• Aligned and unaligned data access allows for efficient vectorization of SIMD operations.
• Clean instruction set architecture designed for autovectorizing compilers and hand coding.
• Efficient access to packed arrays such as ARGB or xyz coordinates
• Support for both integer and floating point operations ensures adaptability to a broad range of applications, from codecs to High Performance Computing to 3D graphics. 
• Tight coupling to the ARM processor provides a single instruction stream and a unified view of memory, presenting a single development platform target with a simpler tool flow. 
• The large NEON register file with its dual 128-bit/64-bit views enables efficient handling of data and minimizes access to memory, enhancing data throughput.