Intel has released version 3.0 of its Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) library, reports Semiconductor Business News. The routines support Pentium 4, Xeon, Itanium 2, and XScale-based processors, and work with Microsoft Windows and PocketPC, plus versions of Linux, according to the article.

Intel's IPP web page describes IPP as “a software library which provides a broad range of functionality including general signal, image, speech, graphics and audio processing, vector manipulation and matrix math, as well as more sophisticated primitives for construction of audio, video and speech codecs such as MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio, Layer 3), MPEG-4, H.263, JPEG, GSM-AMR* and G723, plus computer vision.”

According to Intel, IPP version 3.0 “introduces two new function domains, for speech coding and video coding support, improved configuration tools for smaller footprint support as well as additional functions to support the use of Intel IPP by software which had formerly utilized the former image, JPEG and signal processing libraries (IPL, IJL, SPL). An extensive list of encoder-decoder samples is also provided.”

 
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