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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p><b>Visual Instruction Set</b>, or <b>VIS</b>, is a <a href="SIMD" class="mw-redirect" title="SIMD">SIMD</a> instruction set extension for <a href="SPARC" title="SPARC">SPARC V9</a> <a href="Microprocessor" title="Microprocessor">microprocessors</a> developed by <a href="Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems">Sun Microsystems</a>. There are five versions of VIS: VIS 1, VIS 2, VIS 2+, VIS 3 and VIS 4.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>

<p>VIS 1 was introduced in 1994 and was first implemented by Sun in their <a href="UltraSPARC" title="UltraSPARC">UltraSPARC</a> microprocessor (1995) and by Fujitsu in their <a href="SPARC64_GP" class="mw-redirect" title="SPARC64 GP">SPARC64 GP</a> microprocessors (2000).

</p><p>VIS 2 was first implemented by the <a href="UltraSPARC_III" title="UltraSPARC III">UltraSPARC III</a>. All subsequent UltraSPARC and SPARC64 microprocessors implement the instruction set.

</p><p>VIS 3 was first implemented in the <a href="SPARC_T4" title="SPARC T4">SPARC T4</a> microprocessor.

</p><p>VIS 4 was first implemented in the <a href="SPARC_M7" class="mw-redirect" title="SPARC M7">SPARC M7</a> microprocessor.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Differences_vs_x86">Differences vs x86</h2></div>

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<p>VIS is not an instruction toolkit like <a href="Intel" title="Intel">Intel</a>'s MMX and SSE. MMX has only 8 registers shared with the <a href="Floating-point_unit" title="Floating-point unit">FPU</a> stack, while SPARC processors have 32 registers, also aliased to the double-precision (64-bit) floating point registers.

</p><p>As with the SIMD instruction set extensions on other <a href="RISC" class="mw-redirect" title="RISC">RISC</a> processors, VIS strictly conforms to the main principle of RISC: keep the instruction set concise and efficient.

</p><p>This design is very different from comparable extensions on <a href="Complex_instruction_set_computer" title="Complex instruction set computer">CISC</a> processors, such as <a href="MMX_(instruction_set)" title="MMX (instruction set)">MMX</a>, <a href="Streaming_SIMD_Extensions" title="Streaming SIMD Extensions">SSE</a>, <a href="SSE2" title="SSE2">SSE2</a>, <a href="SSE3" title="SSE3">SSE3</a>, <a href="SSE4" title="SSE4">SSE4</a>, <a href="3DNow!" title="3DNow!">3DNow!</a>.

</p><p>Sometimes, programmers must use several VIS instructions to accomplish an operation that can be done with only one <a href="MMX_(instruction_set)" title="MMX (instruction set)">MMX</a> or <a href="Streaming_SIMD_Extensions" title="Streaming SIMD Extensions">SSE</a> instruction, but it should be kept in mind that fewer instructions do not automatically result in better performance.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Functionality">Functionality</h2></div>

<p>VIS re-uses existing SPARC V9 64-bit floating point registers to hold multiple 8, 16, or 32-bit integer values. In this respect, VIS is more similar to the design of <a href="MMX_(instruction_set)" title="MMX (instruction set)">MMX</a> than other SIMD architectures such as <a href="Streaming_SIMD_Extensions" title="Streaming SIMD Extensions">SSE</a>/<a href="SSE2" title="SSE2">SSE2</a>/<a href="AltiVec" title="AltiVec">AltiVec</a>.

</p><p>VIS includes a number of operations primarily for graphics support, so most of them are only for integers. These include 3D to 2D conversion, <a href="Edge_detection" title="Edge detection">edge processing</a> and pixel distance.

</p><p>There are four ways to use VIS in code:

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<ul><li>The <a href="GNU_Compiler_Collection" title="GNU Compiler Collection">GCC</a> -mvis option</li>

<li>Use <a href="Inline_assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Inline assembly">inline assembly</a></li>

<li>Use inline template in VSDK, similar to compiler intrinsics, which have C function like interfaces</li>

<li>Use the <a href="MediaLib" title="MediaLib">mediaLib</a> multimedia library, which has C function interfaces. It uses VIS on SPARC platforms (and MMX/SSE/SSE2 on x86/x64 platforms) to accelerate multimedia application execution</li></ul>

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</style><cite id="CITEREFLiang_HeHarlan_McGhan2005" class="citation web cs1">Liang He; Harlan McGhan (May 2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061230112444/http://www.sun.com/processors/vis/download/mlib/mlib_wp.pdf">"MT mediaLib for Chip MultiThreaded (CMT) Processors"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Sun Microsystems, Inc. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sun.com/processors/vis/download/mlib/mlib_wp.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on December 30, 2006<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-12-03</span></span>.</cite></span>

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<ul><li>Gwennap, Linley (5 December 1995). "UltraSparc Adds Multimedia Instructions". <i><a href="Microprocessor_Report" title="Microprocessor Report">Microprocessor Report</a></i>.</li>

<li><a href="Marc_Tremblay" title="Marc Tremblay">Tremblay, Marc</a> et al. (August 1996). "VIS Speeds New Media Processing". <i><a href="IEEE_Micro" title="IEEE Micro">IEEE Micro</a></i>.</li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div>

<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mikeburrell.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/an-introduction-to-sparcs-simd-offerings/">An introduction to SPARC’s SIMD offerings (small tutorial)</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/816-1681/sparcv9-tbl-26/index.html">UltraSPARC and VIS Instruction Set Extensions</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/SPARC-VIS-Built-in-Functions.html">GCC SPARC VIS Built-in Functions</a></li></ul>

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</style><div id="Instruction_set_extensions509" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Instruction_set_architecture" title="Instruction set architecture">Instruction set</a> <a href="Processor_supplementary_capability" title="Processor supplementary capability">extensions</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Single_instruction%2C_multiple_data" title="Single instruction, multiple data">SIMD</a> (<a href="Reduced_instruction_set_computer" title="Reduced instruction set computer">RISC</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="DEC_Alpha" title="DEC Alpha">Alpha</a>

<li><a href="Power_ISA" title="Power ISA">Power ISA</a>

<li><a href="SPARC" title="SPARC">SPARC</a>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Single_instruction%2C_multiple_data" title="Single instruction, multiple data">SIMD</a> (<a href="X86" title="X86">x86</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Bit_manipulation" title="Bit manipulation">Bit manipulation</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Instruction_set_architecture#Code_density" title="Instruction set architecture">Compressed instructions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="ARM_architecture_family#Thumb" title="ARM architecture family">Thumb</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Security and <a href="Cryptographic_accelerator" title="Cryptographic accelerator">cryptography</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="VIA_PadLock" title="VIA PadLock">PadLock</a> (2003)</li>

<li><a href="AES_instruction_set" title="AES instruction set">AES-NI</a> (2008); ARMv8 also has AES instructions</li>

<li><a href="CLMUL_instruction_set" title="CLMUL instruction set">CLMUL</a> (2010)</li>

<li><a href="RDRAND" title="RDRAND">RDRAND</a> (2012)</li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Transactional_memory" title="Transactional memory">Transactional memory</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Hardware-assisted_virtualization" class="mw-redirect" title="Hardware-assisted virtualization">Virtualization</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

</div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>Suspended extensions' dates are <s>struck through</s>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

<div class="navbox-styles"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Sun_Microsystems214" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><div id="Sun_Microsystems214" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems">Sun Microsystems</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div><a href="Acquisition_of_Sun_Microsystems_by_Oracle_Corporation" title="Acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation">Acquired by Oracle</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Hardware</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Systems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="SPARCstation" title="SPARCstation">SPARCstation</a>–server–center

<li><a href="SPARCclassic" title="SPARCclassic">classic</a></li>

<li><a href="Sun_Netra" title="Sun Netra">Netra</a></li>

<li><a href="Sun_Ultra" title="Sun Ultra">Ultra</a>

<li><a href="Sun_Enterprise" title="Sun Enterprise">Enterprise</a>

<li><a href="Sun_Blade" title="Sun Blade">Blade server</a></li>

<li><a href="Sun_Blade_(workstation)" title="Sun Blade (workstation)">Blade workstation</a></li>

<li><a href="SPARC_Enterprise" title="SPARC Enterprise">SPARC Enterprise</a></li>

<li><a href="JavaStation" title="JavaStation">JavaStation</a></li>

<li><a href="Sun_Java_Workstation" title="Sun Java Workstation">Java Workstation</a></li>

<li><a href="Cobalt_Qube" title="Cobalt Qube">Cobalt Qube</a></li>

<li><a href="Cobalt_RaQ" title="Cobalt RaQ">Cobalt RaQ</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Processors</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="SPARC" title="SPARC">SPARC</a></li>

<li><a href="MicroSPARC" title="MicroSPARC">microSPARC</a></li>

<li><a href="SuperSPARC" title="SuperSPARC">SuperSPARC</a></li>

<li><a href="UltraSPARC" title="UltraSPARC">UltraSPARC</a></li>

<li><a href="UltraSPARC_II" title="UltraSPARC II">UltraSPARC II</a>

<ul><li>UltraSPARC IIe</li>

<li>UltraSPARC IIi</li>

<li>Gemini</li></ul></li>

<li><a href="UltraSPARC_III" title="UltraSPARC III">UltraSPARC III</a>

<ul><li>UltraSPARC III Cu</li>

<li>UltraSPARC IIIi</li></ul></li>

<li><a href="UltraSPARC_IV" title="UltraSPARC IV">UltraSPARC IV</a></li>

<li><a href="UltraSPARC_T1" title="UltraSPARC T1">UltraSPARC T1</a></li>

<li><a href="UltraSPARC_T2" title="UltraSPARC T2">UltraSPARC T2</a></li>

<li><a href="SPARC_T3" title="SPARC T3">SPARC T3</a></li>

<li><a href="SPARC_T4" title="SPARC T4">SPARC T4</a></li>

<li><a href="SPARC_T5" title="SPARC T5">SPARC T5</a></li>

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<li><a href="Fireplane" title="Fireplane">Fireplane</a></li>

<li><a href="Sun_Modular_Datacenter" title="Sun Modular Datacenter">Modular Datacenter</a></li>

<li><a href="Sun_Neptune" title="Sun Neptune">Neptune</a></li>

<li><a href="System_Service_Processor" title="System Service Processor">System Service Processor</a></li>

<li><a href="SPARC_T_series" title="SPARC T series">SPARC T series</a></li>

<li><a href="Ultra_Port_Architecture" title="Ultra Port Architecture">Ultra Port Architecture</a></li>

</ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="9" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Software</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="SunOS" title="SunOS">SunOS</a></li>

<li><a href="Oracle_Solaris" title="Oracle Solaris">Solaris</a></li>

<li><a href="SunView" title="SunView">SunView</a></li>

<li><a href="OpenWindows" title="OpenWindows">OpenWindows</a></li>

<li><a href="Java_Desktop_System" title="Java Desktop System">Java Desktop System</a></li>

<li><a href="Oracle_Developer_Studio" title="Oracle Developer Studio">Studio</a></li>

<li><a href="StarOffice" title="StarOffice">StarOffice</a></li>

<li><a href="IPlanet" title="IPlanet">iPlanet</a></li>

<li><a href="Sun_Java_System" title="Sun Java System">Java System</a></li>

<li><a href="Oracle_Secure_Global_Desktop" title="Oracle Secure Global Desktop">Sun Secure Global Desktop</a></li>

<li><a href="MySQL" title="MySQL">MySQL</a></li>

<li><a href="GlassFish" title="GlassFish">GlassFish</a></li>

<li><a href="VirtualBox" title="VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Storage</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Sun_StorageTek_5800_System" title="Sun StorageTek 5800 System">StorageTek 5800 System</a></li>

<li><a href="StorageTek_SL8500" title="StorageTek SL8500">StorageTek SL8500</a></li>

<li><a href="Sun_Open_Storage" title="Sun Open Storage">Open Storage</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Performance</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Sun_Cloud" title="Sun Cloud">Cloud</a></li>

<li><a href="Sun_Constellation_System" title="Sun Constellation System">Constellation System</a></li>

<li><a href="Sun_Visualization_System" title="Sun Visualization System">Visualization System</a></li>

<li><a href="Oracle_Grid_Engine" title="Oracle Grid Engine">Grid Engine</a></li>

<li><a href="Lustre_(file_system)" title="Lustre (file system)">Lustre</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Research</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Oracle_Labs" title="Oracle Labs">Sun Microsystems Laboratories</a></li>

<li><a href="PicoJava" title="PicoJava">picoJava</a></li>

<li><a href="Fortress_(programming_language)" title="Fortress (programming language)">Fortress</a></li>

<li><a href="Project_Looking_Glass" title="Project Looking Glass">Project Looking Glass</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Education</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="BlueJ" title="BlueJ">BlueJ</a></li>

<li><a href="Curriki" title="Curriki">Global Education & Learning Community</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Acquisitions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Afara_Websystems" title="Afara Websystems">Afara Websystems</a></li>

<li><a href="Cobalt_Networks" title="Cobalt Networks">Cobalt Networks</a></li>

<li><a href="Gridware" class="mw-redirect" title="Gridware">Gridware</a></li>

<li><a href="Lighthouse_Design" title="Lighthouse Design">Lighthouse Design</a></li>

<li><a href="Montalvo_Systems" title="Montalvo Systems">Montalvo Systems</a></li>

<li><a href="MySQL_AB" title="MySQL AB">MySQL AB</a></li>

<li><a href="Procom_Technology" title="Procom Technology">Procom Technology</a></li>

<li><a href="SavaJe" title="SavaJe">SavaJe</a></li>

<li><a href="StorageTek" title="StorageTek">StorageTek</a></li>

<li><a href="Tarantella%2C_Inc." title="Tarantella, Inc.">Tarantella</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Slogans</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="The_Network_is_the_Computer" title="The Network is the Computer">The Network is the Computer</a></li>

<li><a href="Write_once%2C_run_anywhere" title="Write once, run anywhere">Write once, run anywhere</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Community</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Common_Development_and_Distribution_License" title="Common Development and Distribution License">Common Development and Distribution License</a></li>

<li><a href="Java_Community_Process" title="Java Community Process">Java Community Process</a></li>

<li><a href="NetBeans" title="NetBeans">NetBeans</a></li>

<li><a href="OpenOffice.org" title="OpenOffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a></li>

<li><a href="OpenSolaris" title="OpenSolaris">OpenSolaris</a></li>

<li><a href="OpenSPARC" title="OpenSPARC">OpenSPARC</a></li>

<li><a href="OpenJDK" title="OpenJDK">OpenJDK</a></li>

<li><a href="Open_Source_University_Meetup" title="Open Source University Meetup">Open Source University Meetup</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_Sun_Microsystems_employees" title="List of Sun Microsystems employees">People</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Andy_Bechtolsheim" title="Andy Bechtolsheim">Andy Bechtolsheim</a></li>

<li><a href="Scott_McNealy" title="Scott McNealy">Scott McNealy</a></li>

<li><a href="Vinod_Khosla" title="Vinod Khosla">Vinod Khosla</a></li></ul>

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