Introducing the Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives for Intel® Architecture

The Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) is a software library that provides a comprehensive set of application domain-specific highly optimized functions for signal processing, image and video processing, operations on small matrices, three-dimensional (3D) data processing and rendering, and cryptography operations:

• The Intel IPP signal processing software is a collection of low-overhead, high-performance operations performed on one-dimensional (1D) data arrays. Examples of such operations are linear transforms, filtering, and vector math (see Intel IPP Reference Manual. Volume 1: Signal Processing).

• The Intel IPP image and video processing software is a collection of low-overhead, high-performance operations performed on two-dimensional (2D) arrays of pixels. Examples of such operations are linear transforms, filtering, and arithmetic on image data (see Intel IPP Reference Manual. Volume 2: Image and Video Processing).

• Intel IPP also provides a collection of low-overhead high-performance functions for small matrices, realistic rendering, and 3D data processing (see Intel IPP Reference Manual. Volume 3: Small Matrices and Realistic Rendering).

• The Intel IPP cryptography software offers developers a cross-platform and cross operating system application programming interface (API) for routines commonly used for cryptographic operations (see Intel IPP Reference Manual. Volume 4: Cryptography).

The Intel IPP software enables taking advantage of the parallelism of single-instruction, multiple data (SIMD) instructions, which make the core of the MMX technology and Streaming SIMD Extensions. These technologies improve the performance of computation-intensive signal, image, and video processing applications. Plenty of the Intel IPP functions are tuned and threaded for multi-core systems.

Intel IPP supports application development for various Intel® architectures. By providing a single cross-architecture application programmer interface, Intel IPP permits software application repurposing and enables developers to port to unique features across Intel® processor-based desktop, server, mobile, and handheld platforms. Use of the Intel IPP primitive functions can help drastically reduce development costs and accelerate time-to-market by eliminating the need of writing processor-specific code for computation intensive routines.

For usage details, see the Intel IPP User's Guide for your operating system.

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