Integrated Performance Primitives

Integrated Performance Primitives

Stable release	7.0 update 2 / February 1, 2011 (2011-02-01)
Written in	C/C++
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	library or framework
License	Intel license
Website	http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-ipp/

Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP) is a multi-threaded software library of functions for multimedia and data processing applications, produced by Intel.

The library supports Intel and compatible processors and is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X operating systems. It is available separately or as a part of Intel Parallel Studio.

Features

The library takes advantage of processor features including MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4, AES-NI and multicore processors.^{[citation needed]} Intel IPP includes functions for:

• Video Decode/Encode
• Audio Decode/Encode
• JPEG/JPEG2000/JPEG XR
• Computer Vision
• Cryptography
• Data Compression
• Image Color Conversion
• Image Processing
• Ray Tracing/Rendering
• Signal Processing
• Speech Coding
• Speech Recognition
• String Processing
• Vector/Matrix Mathematics

Organization

Intel IPP is divided into four major processing groups: Signal (with linear array or vector data), Image (with 2D arrays for typical color spaces), Matrix (with nxm arrays for matrix operations), and Cryptography.^{[citation needed]}

Half the entry points are of the matrix type, a third are of the signal type and the remainder are of the image and cryptography types. Intel IPP functions are divided into 4 data types: Data types include 8u (8-bit unsigned), 8s (8-bit signed), 16s, 32f (32-bit floating-point), 64f, etc. Typically, an application developer works with only one dominant data type for most processing functions, converting between input to processing to output formats at the end points.^{[citation needed]}

History

Version 5.2 was introduced June 5, 2007, adding code samples for data compression, new video codec support, support for 64-bit applications on Mac OS X, support for Windows Vista, and new functions for ray-tracing and rendering.^{[citation needed]}

Version 6.1 was released with the Intel C++ Compiler on June 28, 2009 and Update 1 for version 6.1 was released on July 28, 2009.^{[citation needed]}

Counterparts

• Sun: mediaLib for Solaris
• Apple: vDSP, vImage, Accelerate etc. for Mac OS X
• AMD: Framewave (formerly the AMD Performance Library or APL)
• Khronos Group: OpenMAX DL

See also

• Intel Software Network (support and discussion)

External links

• Intel IPP Home Page
• Intel Parallel Studio Home Page
• Stewart Taylor, "Intel Integrated Performance Primitives - How to Optimize Software Applications Using Intel IPP", Intel Press.
• Jpeg Delphi implementation using official JPEG Group C library or Intel Jpeg Library 1.5 (ijl.dll included)
• How To Install OpenCV using IPP (french)